TECH NEWS – Based on pricing from an Australian retailer, it’s not clear that Nvidia will be adopting a very consumer-friendly strategy…

We’re about two weeks away from the release of the GeForce RTX 5000 family, the Blackwell architecture GPUs designed for gamers. A YouTube user (who has since privatized his video) claims to have information on the expected consumer price of the RTX 5080, one of Nvidia’s most powerful cards. 2544 Australian dollars, which is equivalent to 1587 US dollars. This has to be compared to the previous generation.

When you consider how much the RTX 4080 with Ada Lovelace architecture debuted for, the outlook is already negative. The suggested retail price for that card was $1200, so that’s a 33% price increase. However, the RTX 5080 could cost consumers not $1,587, but up to $1,740, because they add a “premium tax” at the beginning, and it could be $300 more expensive than the RTX 4080 at its initial price.

This price is for the Asus Dual model, so it could presumably have three fans on it, and it will be a mid-range RTX 5080 compared to, for example, a possible ROG Strix version. It’s also been noted that there’s 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM on the card, which is in line with previous leaks. The price increase is partly understandable due to the GDDR7 memory chips, but knowing the company, there is definitely a bit of exploitation involved…

The RTX 5080 will come with the GB203 GPU core, and the 16 GB of GDDR7 VRAM will run at 32 Gbps, which will outperform the RTX 4080 (23 Gbps GDDR6X, 736 GB/s). We also wrote that this card could be the first to market, rather than the top predator, the RTX 5090, and then you have to take into account how much higher the Trump tariffs in the US could push prices up…

All this is not official yet.

Source: WCCFTech