Identical to their U.S. colleagues throughout the pond, European retailers are getting ready for Nvidia’s flagship GeForce RTX 4090 launch on October 12. In reality, it appears to be like like some European shops will carry extra {custom} GeForce RTX 4090 variants than a few of their American counterparts as boards from firms like Asus, Gigabyte, Inno3D, , MSI, Palit, PNY, and Zotac are already listed by retailers in Finland, Germany, and the U.Ok.
Customized top-of-the-range Ada Lovelace structure-based graphics boards usually are not low-cost in Europe, to place it mildly. Whereas Nvidia’s personal GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Version graphics card carries an MSRP of €1949 in most European nations, boards from companions begin at €1999 ($1575) in Finland (opens in new tab) and €2029 ($1953) in Germany (opens in new tab), at the least in respective Proshop shops (due to VideoCardz for the tip).
When evaluating European costs to U.S. costs, one ought to be aware that costs in Europe typically embody a sale tax / VAT of respective nations (19% in Germany, 24% in Finland), whereas U.S. retailers listing costs with out taxes. In consequence, whereas at first look European costs look considerably greater than U.S. costs, they don’t seem to be that greater. For comfort of our U.S. readers, we subtract the gross sales tax / VAT after which convert European costs to USD.
The most cost effective GeForce RTX 4090 graphics playing cards in Finland are Gigabyte’s Windforce GeForce RTX 4090 and Asustek’s TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 — they value €1999 ($1575). In the meantime, the lowest-priced G102-based boards in Germany are MSI’s Gaming Trio GeForce RTX 4090 (€2029, $1665) and MSI’s factory-overclocked Gaming X Trio GeForce RTX 4090 (€2169, $1779). The costliest one is the Asus ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC — it prices €2479 ($2034) in Germany and €2549 ($2007) in Finland.
Among the many most fascinating {custom} GeForce RTX 4090 graphics playing cards listed in Europe, however not within the U.S. are definitely Inno3D’s GeForce RTX 4090 iChill X3 with a GPU enhance clock of 2580 MHz and an enormous triple-fan cooling system that’s priced at €2199 ($1732) in Finland. Inno3D additionally has its GeForce RTX 4090 iChill Frostbite/GeForce RTX 4090 iChill Black with pre-installed waterblock for custom-built liquid cooling techniques €2249/€2299 ($1845/$1887) in Germany and €2299/€2399 ($1810/$1890) in Finland.
In the meantime, Caseking.de (opens in new tab) additionally lists Zotac’s factory-overclocked Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 AMP! Excessive Airo with a 2580 MHz GPU enhance clock and an enormous triple-fan cooler. This board will likely be accessible for €2279 ($1870), however the retailer doesn’t say when it’s set to ship.
Talking of Caseking Group, we should always be aware that its U.Ok. subsidiary Overclockers.co.uk (opens in new tab) already lists 22 GeForce RTX 4090 fashions from completely different distributors and even has two GeForce RTX 4080 playing cards from KFA2 in addition to PNY incoming. Sadly, the corporate doesn’t reveal costs of the upcoming boards.
On the whole, appears to be like like large European retailers are roughly prepared for Nvidia’s new product launch on October 12 and people who need to have one of the best graphics card will be capable to get one in lower than two weeks.