If the RTX 4080 doesn't drop below $1,000 this Black Friday I'm waiting for the Super

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What price would I actually pay for an RTX 4080? Tough question. I know what price I wouldn't pay and that's $1,199, or rather the card's MSRP. It's not that the RTX 4080 is a bad card. It isn't; I've been testing Alan Wake 2 on an RTX 4080 for a couple weeks and have absolutely no complaints with how that game performs. It's more than there's not a big enough leap in performance to justify spending the extra cash. I'd rather save the money and buy an RTX 4070 Ti instead.

Here's how I see the high-end Nvidia market right now, and why the RTX 4080 just isn't a deal I feel worth taking up today.

You can pick up an RTX 4080 for around $1,130. Specifically a Zotac model we've seen drop below $1,000 once before during Amazon's Fall Prime Day event. There's one other MSI Ventus RTX 4080 going for $1,155, but most other cards I'm finding are demanding above this card's $1,199 MSRP.

Then you've got the RTX 4070 Ti at $782 over on Newegg, just a touch below this card's $799 MSRP. Again, some cards ask for more, and there's another Zotac at $792, but we'll take the cheapest for comparison.

That's a $1,130 RTX 4080 versus a $782 RTX 4070 Ti. You'd be paying 44.5% more for the privilege of an RTX 4080 going by these prices.

So, let's take a look at performance between these two cards from our own testing.

In 3DMark Time Spy, the RTX 4080 reaches a massive 14,067 GPU index score. The RTX 4070 Ti reaches 10,973. The RTX 4080 is 28.1% faster than the RTX 4070 Ti, in this one benchmark. In gaming tests, we see the RTX 4080 pull away by around 26% on average at 4K, though only 16% and 13% at 1440p and 1080p, respectively.

Since both of these cards are aimed at 4K gaming, let's say that 3DMark score is pretty much on the… mark.

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