Nvidia RTX 4090 GPU is already on sale but you cant buy one

Date:
Tue, 27 Sep 2022 09:25:40 +0000

Description:
Lovelace flagship has been sold by a retailer that jumped the gun, and thats hopefully a good sign on the stock front.

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Nvidias RTX 4090 doesnt hit the shelves until October 12, which is still a couple of weeks away, and yet it seems that at least one person has been able to buy the GPU early.

As VideoCardz reports, over in Hong Kong a retailer is selling the Gigabyte RTX 4090, with evidence provided at LikHK (an online forum in Hong Kong,
which is essentially like Reddit). This includes photos, and plenty of them, showing the Gigabyte Gaming OC 4090 graphics card in question.

Obviously, stay skeptical around any leak like this, but we already know
there are flagship GPUs being sent to reviewers - who obviously need to get the cards in good time to prepare their evaluations for publishing at launch.

However, even if you could get hold of an RTX 4090 if youre in Hong Kong,
and could find the retailer that jumped the gun its a pointless purchase right now, because without the new graphics driver that supports next-gen Lovelace, the product simply wont work.

Although you could get a head-start when it comes to looking at how this chunky GPU will fit in your PC case, maybe?

Chatter from the rumor mill points to the Gigabyte card being sold for 20,000 Hong Kong dollars or thereabouts, which translates to about $2,500 in US currency (or 2,300, AU$3,800); way over the official MSRP, of course (in excess of 50% more in fact).

Still, what a person is willing to fork out to get a pre-release card obviously holds no real meaning, and besides, third-party models have their own recommended pricing (though the Gaming OC variant is historically not one of the costlier Gigabyte brands). Analysis: A hopeful hint for the other Lovelace GPUs, then?

What does hold some meaning, perhaps, is the fact that RTX 4090 third-party graphics cards have already shipped to retailers a good while before that official launch date. And with any luck, that means we can expect a decent amount of stock right from the off.

There are caveats here, naturally, and with its price tag being so high, the RTX 4090 GPU will be a niche proposition, so Nvidia will hardly be churning them out by the bucketload. Also, Team Green wont feel selling out is a bad thing either it makes the cards look popular, and indeed if they dont sell out, it could be regarded as a negative for the perception of the Lovelace flagships launch.

Even so, this is still a hint that Team Green is well prepared for the
initial launch, and that bodes well for RTX 4080 stock, the slightly more affordable high-end GPUs (there are two of them, including a 12GB model that hides a dirty little secret ). Those products will follow the RTX 4090 and go on sale in November.

As for the really key GPUs, which lets face it, will be the RTX 4070 and 4060
theyll have much more palatable price tags theres probably plenty of time before they launch yet, so Nvidia should hopefully be able to build up considerable inventory. Its very likely that we wont see either of those mainstream graphics cards until 2023, and were guessing at a January reveal for one of them, or maybe even both.



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/nvidia-rtx-4090-gpu-is-already-on-sale-but-you- cant-buy-one/


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