RTX 4080 Reddit Verdict: Great Card, Wrong Price

340w sounds more down to earth.

By the time it drops down to logical pricing, those refreshes are right around the corner already.

Very broad TLDW: Good card terrible price. Basically for every 1% more money you spend (compared to previous gen), you're getting about 1% improvement, where we'd expect new card to come in with more performance per unit of money spent.

Anyone remembers 3080 Ti was released on $1200 msrp and stays there for a year. Every single one of reviewers call it overpriced at that time. Yet people still buying it... Right after it's price lowered to $899 4 months ago, it instantly out of stock almost everywhere. PC Gaming industry already changed, no matter you want it or not.

4080's in Canada are around $1799..ridiculous. For $400 more you get a 4090.

No more than $799. Sub $1000 is too generous.

The flat price/perf curve can be pretty deadly to tech advancement. If we don't have decent improvement of price to performance then very quickly no one would be able to afford anything.

That's cool. Still waiting for the 60 series either way.

According to comments, when Nvidia cards are still sitting on shelves it means they're overpriced and gamers don't want them, and when they're sold out it's intentionally low stock or bots.

I will once again sit this generation out.

When Fallout 4 came out I bought an 80ti tier card for like $600 brand new and I thought that was bonkers. I will fistfight Jensen Huang in hell

We looking at a 4080 super?? Because 50 series is over. A year away.

40XX rumored to exist at some point with some amount of power draw and performance metrics.

Great post, seems the 80 class of GPUs are still very effective at 4K and you don't actually need a 4090 to run modern games.

Might be 2 years depending on when in 2025 it actually lands. Unless that was just a bluff to get people to buy 40 series.

This is precisely why I decided against returning my 4080 during the return period and trying to get a Super lol, just couldn't be bothered with fighting against stock issues.

The article's 1 hour old, there's probably new rumors out already. I'm not believing anything until the announcement.

It's pretty efficient then. Same as 3080 board power. I wouldn't even have to upgrade my PSU. I think a lot of people will be happy if 4080 comes out with this power limit.

If you have over $1000 to spend on a GPU, why on earth would you buy a 4080 over a 4090, this is the worst priced 80 series card ever

It's always been like this for at least the first week of any major GPU release. People need to relax

I think there is one thing we learned from the previous couple years. The market decides what the price of a GPU is.

1080, 2080, 2080S, and 3080 have been $700. So the 4080 probably will be too. Otherwise I expect a minor bump for inflation, ie: $750. The $1k+ guesses are stuck in 2021.

I always laugh at the posts saying you need a 4090 for 4k. You absolutely do not.

Neither is good. The 4080 at $1200 had worse price performance than the previous gen. And at $1000, it's still a minimal generational improvement. It's 50% faster than a 3080 while costing 43% more.

The card is still massively overpriced because it's not actually a xx80 class product, it's more like a xx70 Ti product and the 3070 Ti cost $600. A new expensive node, COVID, inflation — let's add 30% on top of that, it must cost at most $800.

That's cool. Still waiting for 50 series either way.

4080 sold like shit when it was new. Most went for 4090, 4070ti and 4070. And there have also been multiple credible reports of Nvidia artificially limiting stock. Not everything is an anti Nvidia conspiracy

4080 super FE is constantly restocking at Best Buy. Last night I had one to where I could have completed my order without much effort.

It's so exhausting seeing people keep getting fooled into thinking a product name dictates its pricing.

Rumor mill 5 months from release: watch out it's gonna be a 400W GPU. 4 months from release: OMG it's a 550W GPU. 3 months: HOW WILL OUR POWER SUPPLIES SURVIVE 700W. 2 months: AHHHHHHH 900W. 1 month from release: ...340W

They learned from the 1080Ti. Don't make something so freaking good and affordable that people won't need to upgrade for several generations. Same as what Apple do with the iPhone. Innovate a little, charge people stupid money every couple of years.

Get those wallets ready, it ain't going to be pretty.

I got a 4080FE for 1440p gaming. I admit it was extreme overkill, but I have no regrets

I don't see the need to upgrade to a 4080, but if you are not satisfied with your current performance then by all means go ahead.

I have the 4080 FE, absolutely satisfied with it and use for 4K gaming.

I took this upgrade path, and it's been better with the 4080 FE as far as temps go. I pair it with a 5800x3d. I think it's worth it.

I also have a 3080Ti and personally I wouldn't upgrade unless it was a 4090. I've decided to skip this generation completely because I don't feel like the upgrade is worth the money. Maybe if I had an RX 580 or something still, but coming from a 3080 or better, I don't think it's worth spending a couple grand on a card right now.

I have the 4080FE. It's amazing: quiet, sips power, very low thermals, and destroys everything I throw at it on my 3440x1440 monitor. Also, I bought mine for an effective MSRP of around $970 from Best Buy after discounts/rewards.

Since I upgrade every 2 years I thought a 4080 would be good enough for my 1440p setup. My 5800X3D + 4080 are doing superbly no matter the game at high/max settings 1440p 144fps G-Sync.

I wouldn't pay $1200 for 30% when $1600 gets you 60%.

I went from the 3080 12gb to a 4080 and it was a very nice upgrade. My screen is 1440p 165hz and the 4080 can push to 165hz much easier than the 3080. Firestrike score went from 34k to 44k and timespy from 17k to 27k. Warhammer 3 went from 85-95fps to 120-130fps. Temps also drop about 10c from the 3080 to the 4080.

I run a 3080 in 4K and see no reason in upgrading anytime soon. I just set DLSS and lower some settings until I get the fps I want. It really depends on how much you value $1200.

Sold my 3080 for $700 canadian, then went out and spent $2000 canadian on the 4080. Well, the money is gone, and I don't miss it anymore but I do like using the 4080 almost daily.

If you want 1440p at high framerates (120+ish) and high-max graphics settings, then the 4080 isn't a bad choice. If you want to save some money, then the 7900XTX might be the smarter choice. If you value ray tracing or Shadowplay, then the 4080 is the better choice.