Nvidia’s RTX 4080 has popped up at retailers with one graphics card exhibiting on the MSRP within the US as we close to the official on-sale date – however the information isn’t so good within the UK sadly (or elsewhere in Europe).

So, the official MSRP within the US is $1,199 for the GeForce RTX 4080 (16GB model – which is the one variant now, in fact, because the 12GB spin was canceled), and we’ve additionally seen that it’s going to retail within the UK at an MSRP of £1,269 (we’ll come again to that).

That is the value Nvidia will promote for, however third-party customized variations of the RTX 4080 will command extra of a premium in some instances, however not in each occasion, and we’ve seen that illustrated with a PNY graphics card that has the official MSRP pinned to it.

As Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab) highlights, that is the PNY Gaming Verto RTX 4080 (opens in new tab) which is priced at bang-on $1,199 and is likely to be up for pre-order earlier than lengthy, allowing for the 4080 isn’t formally on sale till November 16, simply over a fortnight away but.

There’s additionally the quicker overclocked (OC) version of this graphics card listed on Newegg, however it isn’t but priced – clearly with the enhance clock made to run a bit quicker, providing a bit of higher efficiency, it’ll be considerably extra pricey.

VideoCardz (opens in new tab) additional noticed that Laptops Direct within the UK has Palit’s RTX 4080 OmniBlack at £1,450 really on pre-order (with supply time listed as “from three weeks”), and costlier fashions from Palit reaching as much as £1,530 (that’s the GameRock OC on the top-end).

There are RTX 4080 fashions listed elsewhere (within the US and UK) however none but have pricing hooked up. Probably that’ll change quickly because the launch nears.

Evaluation: The great, the dangerous, and the Ampere different

From what we will see up to now, there’s clearly good and dangerous right here. It’s good to see that within the US, a third-party mannequin of the RTX 4080 is sticking to the MSRP – assuming the value tag doesn’t shift from that time, in fact.

The UK seems to be a special story to date, however Laptops Direct will not be the place most individuals go for his or her graphics card wants (as you may guess, that retailer is fairly standard for, er, laptops although). The likes of Scan or Overclockers UK (OCUK) for instance nonetheless don’t have costs hooked up to the RTX 4080 fashions that may be noticed on their respective websites (really, Scan doesn’t even have standalone playing cards listed but, simply prebuilt programs with the RTX 4080, unpriced).

These costs we will see at Laptops Direct are nonetheless an ominous signal, and the truth that the MSRP itself is greater than the US is disappointing too (even when extremely predictable given current forex actions and so forth). What we will see at Scan is the value of the RTX 4090 being between £1,950 and £2,000, and at OCUK it’s an analogous story of £1,980 to £2,030, which doesn’t bode properly for the RTX 4080 coming in at its MSRP of £1,269 in that nation.

We may properly be taking a look at £1,500, then, or possibly even creeping up from there with beefier RTX 4080 fashions, significantly if inventory is thinner on the bottom initially. And the way will that evaluate with Ampere graphics playing cards? Effectively, you possibly can choose up an RTX 3090 Ti Founders Version for £1,149 (at Scan (opens in new tab)) proper now – and it’s unclear how a lot better the RTX 4080 16GB can be than the 3090 Ti (outdoors of the larger boosts for DLSS three video games, that’s, that are in fact very a lot a distinct segment proposition nonetheless).

This type of pricing makes the beefier RTX 3000 fashions look tempting, for positive, and a few may argue maybe that’s the concept with the preliminary RTX 4000 launches (as we hold listening to, Nvidia and companions do have a whole lot of Ampere inventory to clear, nonetheless).

One other argument is likely to be in case you’re going to fork out that a lot for an RTX 4080, why not simply go the entire hog and get the 4090 anyway (although melting energy adapters may concern you at this level with the Lovelace flagship).

We will’t get carried away with early hints of pricing, in fact, and there’s nonetheless that glimmer of hope for respectable pricing within the US – offering that PNY card doesn’t end up to have a placeholder price ticket – even when that’s not the case within the UK (and elsewhere in Europe for that matter, the place Lovelace playing cards could be much more costly).

Whether or not or not the RTX 4000 vary finally ends up at MSRP, thoughts, these really helpful costs are nonetheless reasonably ridiculous, definitely for the RTX 4080 while you evaluate it to the RTX 3080 which got here with an MSRP of $699 (or £649), even in case you couldn’t really purchase it for something like that.

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