A number of Nvidia RTX 4090 graphics playing cards are actually listed for pre-order at a significant US retailer, and the excellent news – effectively, in a style – is that the boards are priced extra moderately than some people had been anticipating, and certainly bang-on MSRP within the case of some third-party fashions.

Tom’s {Hardware} (opens in new tab) identified the product listings which have gone up at Greatest Purchase for the RTX 4090, as highlighted by one of many common Twitter leakers we hear from, @momomo_us.

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These listings embrace the Gigabyte RTX 4090 WindForce and MSI RTX 4090 Gaming X Trio, with each of these graphics playing cards carrying worth tags that are the MSRP – $1,599 within the US (round £1,460, AU$2,480) – simply the identical as Nvidia’s personal Founders Version of the flagship product.

We are able to additionally see Gigabyte’s RTX 4090 Gaming OC which runs with an overclock (that’s what the OC within the identify stands for) and is priced at $1,700 (round £1,550, AU$2,630).

Lastly, there’s an MSI RTX 4090 Suprim Liquid X with a price ticket of $1,750 (round £1,600, AU$2,700), a thinner card with a elaborate cooling system that employs an exterior 240mm radiator to realize two-slot svelteness (all of the aforementioned fashions take up three PCIe slots on account of their thickness).

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These costs are very a lot in distinction to the launch of current-gen Ampere graphics playing cards, the place Nvidia’s GPUs had been all marked up a technique or one other on account of a severely out-of-whack provide and demand scenario (and worth inflation subsequently grew to become even worse when scalpers acquired concerned). And naturally Workforce Inexperienced’s flagship fashions are already costly sufficient with none premiums on high.

So, it’s good to see customized RTX 4090 graphics playing cards showing on the MSRP proper off the bat, and fancier fashions – which is able to all the time value extra – not having a giant further ask heaped on high. There’s all the time the likelihood that Greatest Purchase’s pricing might be placeholders, however with the launch in slightly below two weeks now (October 12), we’re considering that most likely isn’t the case.

After all, we are saying it’s good to see this, however actually, that is what we anticipate. You already know, graphics playing cards priced on the really useful stage, or a minimum of a few of them. Optimistically, Nvidia will be capable of push an honest quantity of chips for the RTX 4090 to keep away from any shortages, however because it’s very a lot a distinct segment proposition – most individuals received’t spend this a lot on their total PC, let’s face it – demand won’t be enormous. But when stock is on the slight facet, there stays the hazard of worth gouging and the like.

The actually fascinating bit would be the launch of the RTX 4080, which is available in November, and the way inventory points and pricing will fall with that considerably extra (comparatively) reasonably priced GPU – or a minimum of the lower-tier card with 12GB of VRAM. Sure, in case you missed it, there are two separate variants of the RTX 4080, the lesser spec of which some have theorized was initially destined to be the RTX 4070.

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