Final week, we obtained the primary sniff of US pricing for Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 graphics playing cards at retail. The indicators weren’t nice, and it seems to be like will probably be troublesome for customers to purchase many fashions near the MSRP this Wednesday (Nov 16 launch date). Nonetheless, we’ve began to see the primary European costs emerge over the weekend, and it’s wanting considerably worse there, with the most affordable mannequin listed costing £1,166 ($1,368) earlier than VAT.
For a sampling of RTX 4080 costs, we’ve checked fashionable tech retailers in Denmark, France, and the UK and in contrast them with Microcenter US pricing. All of the retailers we checked had the Asus TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 4080 accessible amongst their cheaper SKUs, and the most costly choice in any respect the retailers sampled was the Asus ROG Strix RTX 4080 OC Version.
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Denmark, Proshop |
France, InfoMax |
UK, Field |
USA, Microcenter |
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Asus TUF RTX 4080 |
11.299,00 kr. ($1,566) |
€1,430 ( $1,474) |
£1,166 ($1,368) |
$1,199 |
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Asus Strix RTX 4080 OC |
11.752,00 kr ($1,629.20) |
€1,775 ($1,830) |
£1,375 ($1,614) |
$1,549 |
Bear in mind, Nvidia’s acknowledged GeForce RTX 4080 MSRP is $1,199, and the MSRP of the flagship RTX 4090 is $1,599. We’ve got used the European costs with gross sales tax eliminated, earlier than making use of right this moment’s USD alternate fee.
If we contemplate the above, the US costs are the very best, by some margin, adopted by UK pricing. Patrons within the Eurozone can simply choose the most affordable fellow EU nation with none fuss relating to extra responsibility or import taxes. In the mean time, France seems to be prefer it has the very best pricing in Euros, however we couldn’t discover any retailers in neighboring nations like Spain, Germany, or Italy providing indicative pricing for the RTX 4080 collection.
To remind readers of the specs and estimated capabilities of the GeForce RTX 4080, it’s powered by the AD103 GPU, which has about 60% fewer transistors than the AD102 contained in the RTX 4090. In addition to having significantly decrease CUDA, Tensor, and RT core counts, the RTX 4080 16GB has 8GB much less VRAM and a narrower reminiscence bus, too. We’ll have examined efficiency figures to share shortly, however Nvidia’s pre-release advertising and marketing numbers and leaks level to the RTX 4080 16GB nonetheless constantly providing a serious efficiency uplift of the previous-gen RTX 3090 Ti.