Don’t look now – properly, really do look, otherwise you’ll have hassle studying the remainder of this text – however the Nvidia RTX 4080 graphics card has now dropped under its MSRP (really helpful worth) within the UK, and significantly under in a single case.

That might be at retailer AWD-IT (opens in new tab), which as VideoCardz (opens in new tab) studies, has lowered the Palit RTX 4080 GameRock to £1,099.99, which is £99 under the official UK MSRP. Because the retailer notes, it’s really a 23% discount in comparison with the earlier asking worth of £1,429.99, and that is apparently a limited-time provide (or ‘crispy deal’ as AWD-IT couches it).

This isn’t the one signal of downward worth motion for the RTX 4080 within the UK, as Overclockers has dropped its Palit GameRock (opens in new tab) (OmniBlack mannequin, which is identical because the above, however with out RGB lighting) to £1,169.99, once more under the MSRP.

Moreover, at eBuyer (opens in new tab) that very same graphics card is £1,179.99, which remains to be £19 decrease than the really helpful worth.

Evaluation: A optimistic omen for that rumored Nvidia worth reduce?

Is that this some sort of provide instigated by Palit which is a brief factor? Maybe, however with a drop of 100 notes under MSRP, which is fairly substantial – even when it hardly makes us need to rush out and purchase the RTX 4080 – this might be a hopeful signal that additional worth cuts are incoming (not simply within the UK, however elsewhere across the globe).

As it’s possible you’ll recall, the rumor mill believes that Nvidia goes to use a worth reduce to the RTX 4080 subsequent week, or at the very least within the close to future, and that is smart on a lot of ranges already.

December 13 is when AMD’s next-gen RDNA three GPUs hit the cabinets, so it’d assist to make sure competitivity in that respect, and it might additionally deal with the clear public notion that Nvidia is charging means an excessive amount of for the RTX 4080 (and third-party customized fashions will be significantly ridiculous). We’ve additionally theorized about different causes for a 4080 worth reduce that are not directly associated to the RTX 4070 Ti, principally to assist make sure that this GPU will be viably priced cheaper than the canceled RTX 4080 12GB which it’s supposedly just about similar to (extra on that right here).

There are many good causes to consider Nvidia might – and will – reduce the MSRP on the RTX 4080 imminently, then. And this worth motion within the UK represents a fairly strong trace that that is precisely what’s about to occur.

Given all this, it’s fairly clear that anybody contemplating the RTX 4080 ought to wait some time to see if an official Nvidia worth reduce does come into play – and maybe additional reductions from retailers on high. If that does change into the broader public notion, in fact, it’ll additional depress RTX 4080 gross sales, and make it extra probably that Nvidia will take price-cutting motion, at the very least in concept.

Fingers crossed, and when you wait, you may at all times entertain your self by watching the eBay listings of scalpers panicking and attempting to promote the RTX 4080 graphics playing cards they purchased with the intention of worth gouging, who are actually realizing that they could not even be capable to break even – or anyplace near that, maybe. Get these tiny violins out now…

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