NVIDIA’s next flagship graphics card isn’t going to be cheap, but its premium may not be as extreme as some might have feared.
New rumors shared on the Chiphell forums have suggested that the GeForce RTX 4090 will be priced lower than the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti when it launches later this year. NVIDIA’s current flagship carries an MSRP of $1,999.
Another claim is that NVIDIA is planning to release two variants of the GeForce RTX 4090 with different power demands. One will supposedly feature a 450-watt TDP, while a more demanding counterpart will feature a 650-watt TDP. Both are said to feature the same boost clock limits.
The poster also alleges that NVIDIA may only launch the GeForce RTX 4090 this year. Additional models may not show up until Q1 2023, and one reason for the delay could relate to NVIDIA’s current GPU inventory, which is greater than desired by AIBs, as speculated by publications such as Wccftech.
One reason for this delay could be the fact that NVIDIA is very serious about its existing GPU inventory and AIBs could have asked the green team to wait a bit more before launching new cards & that is also why we are seeing the existing flagship lineup drop down the $1000 US price range in retail sites. NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3080 Ti which had an MSRP of $1200 US is already being sold for lower than $800 US while the RTX 3090 which had an MSRP of $1500 US is currently on offer for $1000 US.
Previous reports had suggested that the GeForce RTX 4090 would be out in October, while the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4070 would show in November and December, respectively, with the GeForce RTX 4060 surfacing during CES 2023.
NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 is rumored to count 16,128 CUDA cores and 24 GB of GDDR6X memory among its specifications. Recent claims from leaker kopite7kimi have suggested that NVIDIA is planning a flagship model with an 800-watt TBP.
Just to add a bit of perspective here... I'll gladly suffer through higher priced GPU's if it means I don't have to be bombed.. I want that violence and horror to end for all those involved. And if the impetuous to motivate the world to end this conflict is high prices... hopefully the world will act soon.
I also don't see how the worsening of living standards in europe will help put an end to the war. If anything appeasers are gaining political power due to it.
I'm not sure how you've reached this conclusion. You may want GPU's to be that cheap, but that's not realistic and hasn't been for some time. I can remember a time when the highest end GPU's were well below $399. That just isn't the world we live in. Inflation, increasing complexity, materials costs, etc. have all driven the prices of modern GPU's well beyond the days where you can expect a high end or top end GPU for that kind of price.
The 3080 and the 3090 were both unobtanium for months after they launched, then they became available sooner than in the US, but for ridiculous prices, 3080 for $2500 and 3090 $4000 and such. Not from scalpers, this was the price direct from retailers. You could say the EU solved the scalper problem.
All I want is for things to be in proportion. a hi-end gpu costs 2x as much now as it did in 2014. Now if my salary was also double of what I got then it would be fine, but it's not even 50% more.
Honestly, the MSRP wasn't really out of bounds for the 30 series. The RTX 3090 replaced the Titan V at the time for $1,000 less. The RTX 2080 Ti retailed for around $1,100, that's right where the RTX 3080 Ti's sit at. The RTX 3080 at the time was $699. Granted, none of these cards were easily obtained at the time, but we've seen worse pricing than this and I'm not talking about gouging due to mining BS.
I'd like to see top-end GPU prices cool down a bit too, but I'm under no illusion about the very real costs that these products incur per unit. The push for performance is real, and GPU manufacturers are delivering.
It's also worth repeating that not everyone needs a x080 Ti / x090. I'd like to see the x070-level GPUs back under US$500, but outside of that, I think we're doing alright.