Nvidia’s RTX 4080 graphics card has been noticed priced up in Europe and the UK forward of its large launch on November 16, however sadly these are much more worrying worth tags for would-be patrons than these we’ve already witnessed within the US.

Should you recall, US pricing – for third-party fashions of the RTX 4080, that means customized boards made by Nvidia’s manufacturing companions – appeared on the tail-end of final week, and didn’t make for fairly viewing on the entire. Granted, there have been some 4080 GPUs which held to Nvidia’s advisable pricing – which was very a lot a reduction to see – however higher-end fashions have been pushing fairly a ridiculous premium.

Should you had been hoping the scenario in Europe is perhaps higher, then suppose once more primarily based on the early glimpses we’ve now seen.

Within the UK, retailer Field has numerous Asus RTX 4080 fashions ranging from a fairly eye-watering £1,399 (TUF Gaming (opens in new tab)), with entry-level Palit RTX 4080s (opens in new tab) additionally pitched at that degree (two GameRock (opens in new tab) variants).

The TUF Gaming OC Version (opens in new tab) from Asus creeps as much as £1,571, and if you need the top-of-the-line ROG Strix RTX 4080 (opens in new tab), that’ll set you again £1,649. Sure, ouch.

As Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab) factors out, the scenario elsewhere in Europe additionally appears fairly dire. The Asus TUF RTX 4080 is a towering €1,430 in France (InfoMax) – which is near $1,500 in US {dollars} – and 11.299,00 kr in Denmark (Proshop), which is much more (round $1,560).

Evaluation: Pricing distress compounded

Do not forget that the talked about Asus TUF RTX 4080 is likely one of the graphics playing cards which occurs to be at MSRP within the US (at Micro Middle at the very least), so it’s fairly disappointing to see it cranked up significantly within the UK and Europe.

Now, these early costs don’t symbolize the entire panorama of RTX 4080 pricing, after all; so we will’t get carried away. Massive retailers like Scan, Overclockers and so forth within the UK don’t have any RTX 4080 fashions priced in any respect but, although the product listings are on the positioning.

That stated, we don’t take that as an awesome signal, both – and extra of a sign that inventory is perhaps wobbly upon launch. That’d be a sadly acquainted scenario, and one which may result in worth inflation anyway, as scalpers look to choose up stock and perhaps promote it on at much more of a revenue.

We’re getting forward of ourselves, naturally, however the entire RTX 4080 launch is beginning to fill us with trepidation. And definitely, it’s troublesome to be optimistic notably for the UK market while you nonetheless can’t get an RTX 4090 for any lower than £1,800 proper now (opens in new tab).

Pricing will finally quiet down extra, though some avid gamers could also be seeking to look forward to extra reasonably priced Nvidia graphics playing cards to emerge – just like the RTX 4070 Ti (even when reasonably priced will likely be a relative time period right here, this GPU may definitely seem like one thing of a discount in comparison with the above outlined costs). Equally, there are alternatives from AMD coming within the type of RDNA three GPUs, however once more simply higher-end fashions, with the RX 7900 XTX aiming to go toe-to-toe with the RTX 4080.

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