Anyone looking to buy a graphics card can now order the RTX 3080 12 GB. Nvidia has upgraded its RTX 3080. However, retailers are asking a lot of money for the graphics card.
What is this upgrade? Quietly, Nvidia released an improved version of the popular GeForce RTX 3080. This is an upgrade of the video memory, as the new version has 12 GB of video memory instead of 10 GB.
But anyone who hoped to purchase a graphics card at a good price will be disappointed. Prices (not surprisingly) are again at uncomfortable heights, and hardly anyone is willing to spend so much money on a graphics card.
You can order the RTX 3080 12 GB for 1700 Euros
How high is the price for the RTX 3080 with 12 GB? Currently, prices for the graphics card start at 1700 Euros. At least you can now order the graphics card from the provider Mindfactory. By the way, there is currently no recommended retail price (RRP) because Nvidia did not make any significant announcement for the graphics card.
In a time when graphics cards are either hardly available or you have to pay thousands of Euros on eBay for a graphics card, the RRP hardly plays a role anymore.
The price is thus higher than the previous RRP of the GeForce RTX 3090 – Nvidia’s previously most expensive graphics card. It officially costs 1499 Euros. With the RTX 3090 Ti, Nvidia had already presented a faster (and presumably more expensive) graphics card than the RTX 3090 at CES 2022.
Through the following link, you will land directly in the Mindfactory shop and could order the graphics card directly. However, you are not allowed to order more than 2 graphics cards at once:
Order GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB at Mindfactory
Many users requested an upgrade for the RTX 3080
What did the users request? Already after the release of the RTX 3080, many users demanded that Nvidia offer the RTX 3080 with larger memory. In our summary of the test of the GeForce RTX 3080, we had already reported that some testers criticized that Nvidia only equipped its new RTX 3080 with 10 GB of video memory. There were even rumors that Nvidia wanted to sell the RTX 3080 as a 20 GB version.
With the RTX 3080 12 GB, users are at least somewhat accommodated, as the memory of the graphics card is expanded by 2 GB.
According to initial reports, the 12 GB version of the RTX 3080 reportedly does not deliver more performance than the previous model. Here Nvidia has now released the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which offers more performance than the graphics card without Ti.
What can you expect in 2022? Even if graphics card prices in the new year will likely remain very high, there is still some exciting news.
Because manufacturers are already preparing the next generation of graphics cards behind the scenes. First leaks report that the GeForce RTX 4090 will be twice as fast as the current RTX 3090. However, when these graphics cards will come is still unknown, as Nvidia has not yet presented any graphics card.
