The NVIDIA RTX 5080 is in charge of a PDSF of $999 in the United States, and in line with this in other regions, which is a delightful surprise, but it turns out that the worst fears of confident gamers can simply be made, if, if worth it in some thirds of the forums they just did seem to be all that needs to be approved.
This data comes from a Finnish retailer, Proshop, which jumped in and indexed Gigabyte’s RTX 5080 models with prices, and a graphics card is set at MSRP in Finland (€1229) out of a seven-table overall.
As VideoCardz reports, only the Gigabyte WindForce model is pitched at that €1,229, with the other six variants being a good deal more expensive.
Even the maximum of those offers that are not from Windforce, the game OC and Aero OC, are € 1,419, which is an abundant cousin compared to the fundamental graphics card.
The Aorus variants are a good deal more expensive still, with the priciest version of those, the Aorus Xtreme WaterForce, reaching €1,669.
What this means is that Gigabyte has one RTX 5080 board, the WindForce, at the MSRP, and the other flavors are between 15% and 35% pricier. Obviously we should exercise a whole lot of caution around these prices, in case they turn out to be wrong somehow, or placeholders, but we’re very close to release now (and they sound plausible).
As indicated at the beginning, this fears that I, and many others, express at the time of the NVIDIA announcement of the RTX 5080 prices.
On the one hand, it was great to see that $999 MSRP attached to the RTX 5080, when rumors had suggested Nvidia might sell it at $1,200 in the US (and proportional to that elsewhere), or maybe a good chunk more than that. Especially considering that the RTX 5090 price got jacked up.
On the other hand, the main concern was that most third-party models wouldn’t be at MSRP, and that scenario is exactly what appears to be playing out with Gigabyte’s RTX 5080 graphics cards – at least if the info from Proshop is correct. And it may not be, as already mentioned, so we mustn’t jump to any conclusions yet.
This remains just an ominous hint at the moment, then, although even if it proves right, there’s a chance that other graphics card makers won’t follow suit, and may have more models at the MSRP level. Or rather, their second-tier above baseline models hopefully won’t have a 15% hike, and instead exhibit a more modest increase.
If there are very few RTX 5080 Thirds for sale in the PDSF (or closure), then the probability is that at the launch, and for a while later, those tips will be sold in a flash (with the founders of the NVIDIA edition) . Make the truth of obtaining an RTX 5080 at the PDSFR point is a trembling perspective, in summary, but there is still hope that this situation will not take place.
Darren is a freelancer writing news and features for TechRadar (and occasionally T3) across a broad range of computing topics including CPUs, GPUs, various other hardware, VPNs, antivirus and more. He has written about tech for the best part of three decades, and writes books in his spare time (his debut novel – ‘I Know What You Did Last Supper’ – was published by Hachette UK in 2013).
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