NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Won’t Be Available at MSRP from AIB Partners Because That’d Be “Equivalent to Charity,” It’s Claimed: “Very, Ve...

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Custom versions of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, a new high-end GPU for gamers and creators based on the "Blackwell" architecture that advertises 10,752 CUDA Cores, 16 GB of GDDR7 memory, and support for DLSS 4 and its Multi Frame Generation technology, will be very difficult—or maybe even impossible—to find at the $999 MSRP that NVIDIA has set for the GPU and its Founders Edition (i.e., reference design) model, according to a tip out of the Chip Hell forums that suggests NVIDIA is happy to continue undercutting its major partners, which would include the likes of ASUS, GIGABYTE, and MSI.

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I call BS. They are forecasting that right now but I don't see that being the end result.
 
Dan_D said:
Video card manufacturers crying poverty isn't something I have any sympathy for when they've been ripping us off for years with AIB cards costing so much more than the Founder's Editions.
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If any current rumors are to be believed, ASUS (initial) charging 1900 for an Astral 5080 is certainly a teeny, tiny, dare I say, miniscule bit of profit. These AIB live for the idea that a fool and his money should part.
 
Slag-King said:
If any current rumors are to be believed, ASUS (initial) charging 1900 for an Astral 5080 is certainly a teeny, tiny, dare I say, miniscule bit of profit. These AIB live for the idea that a fool and his money should part.
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And they will!
 
I blame nVidia moreso than I do the AIBs, and to be honest, I blame people willing to pay these markups as to why they exist, and why they will continue to get worse.

Not that I really have any sympathy for them either, but they have very limited opportunity to add much innovation over FE edition cards, and have a steep markup they have to pay to nVidia for the privilege. nVidia competing against them with the FE cards, while at the same time holding them to very high prices is a double whammy for the AIBs, and exactly why you saw EVGA get out of the market (at least officially, some will say it was their warranty policy, but actions like these make me wonder).

The AIBs have to make money too, and these markups are the only way they can do it.
 
The AIB's see how well the scalper market has done over the past few launches, so they want a piece of that pie and will charge scalper prices themselves.
 
Only 1 5000 series card available here, the gigabyte 5080 waterforce for a measily 1.899€
 
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