- A Finnish retailer has published prices for Gigabyte’s RTX 5080 models
- Only the WindForce variant is at the MSRP
- The other six RTX 5080 boards shown are 15% to 35% more expensive
Nvidia’s RTX 5080 has an MSRP of $999 in the US, and in line with other regions, which was a pleasant surprise, but it looks like some gamers’ worst fears could be realized. reality if the price of any third party. The boards that just appeared are something to look out for.
This information comes from a Finnish retailer, Proshop, which went ahead and listed Gigabyte’s RTX 5080 models with prices, and only one graphics card has the MSRP set in Finland (€1,229) out of a total of seven boards.
As VideoCardz reports, only the Gigabyte WindForce model is priced at €1,229, with the other six variants being much more expensive.
Even the most affordable non-WindForce offerings, the Gaming OC and Aero OC, cost €1,419, which is a considerable premium over the entry-level graphics card.
The Aorus variants are much more expensive even, and the most expensive version of them, the Aorus Xtreme WaterForce, reaches €1,669.
What this means is that Gigabyte has an RTX 5080 board, the WindForce, at the MSRP, and the other versions are 15% to 35% more expensive. Obviously, we need to be very cautious with these prices, in case they turn out to be incorrect in some way, or placeholders, but we’re very close to publishing them now (and they sound plausible).
Analysis: An ominous sign, but don’t panic yet
As noted at the beginning, this was the concern I (and many others) expressed at the time of Nvidia’s RTX 5080 pricing announcement.
On the one hand, it was cool to see the $999 MSRP attached to the RTX 5080, when rumors suggested Nvidia could sell it for $1,200 in the US (and proportionately to that elsewhere), or perhaps a good chunk of it. more than that. Especially considering that the price of the RTX 5090 went up.
On the other hand, the main concern was that most third-party models would have no MSRP, and that scenario is exactly what seems to be happening with Gigabyte’s RTX 5080 graphics cards, at least if Proshop’s information is correct. And it may not be, as we’ve already mentioned, so we shouldn’t jump to conclusions just yet.
This remains just an ominous hint for now, although even if it turns out to be correct, there’s a chance that other graphics card manufacturers won’t follow suit and may have more models at the MSRP level. Or rather, their second-tier models above the baseline should hopefully not have a 15% increase and instead show a more modest increase.
If there are very few third-party RTX 5080 models on sale at (or close to) MSRP, then chances are that at launch, and perhaps for quite some time afterward, those boards will sell out in an instant (along with the founders from Nvidia). Edition). In short, making the reality of getting an RTX 5080 at the MSRP level a shaky prospect, but there is still hope that this scenario does not play out.
