NVIDIA RTX 5080 Reportedly Costs $1500, Suggests an Australian Retailer

GeForce RTX 5080 Rumored to Break the $1500 Barrier, Bringing it Closer to RTX 4090 Launch Price

One of the biggest pricing leaks of the upcoming RTX 50 series graphics cards has surfaced today on social media. This is particularly true for the GeForce RTX 5080, which is the first GPU to launch at CES 2025. The leaked price for this card looks insanely high and has broken all the 80-class price records as we are about to step in 2025.

The YouTube channel Vex has received this information from an Australian PC hardware retailer, who wanted to stay anonymous while providing the price sheet for the ASUS RTX 5080 GPU. The particular edition in the talks is the PRIME GeForce RTX 5080 OC edition, featuring 16GB of GDDR7 memory as it appears from the table.

There are two rows for the pricing: One is the ‘Purchase Price’ and the other is the “MSRP”. The former price is what the retailer will be buying from the distributor and the latter is its final price for the consumers like us. The purchase price of this particular edition is an insane $2,544.55 Australian Dollars, which converts to around a whopping US$1580.

This includes tax but even after deducting it, the GPU is said to cost anywhere between $1400-$1600 in the NA market as per the retailer as the pricing depends upon the type of edition. The PRIME series isn’t an enthusiast one as ASUS typically sells ROG Strix as its premium GPU series. If the Prime RTX 5080 can sell for a whopping $1500+, expect premium editions to cost even more.

However, the RTX 5080 from other vendors like Galax, Gigabyte, and MSI is expected to feature a $100 lower price tag than ASUS cards in Australia, which still doesn’t reduce the GPU’s price much as the purchase price and MSRP will still be over $1500 and $1600 respectively. With higher-end custom editions, it’s possible to see the GPU over $1500 in the US as well and if that’s true, then it’s directly competing with the RTX 4090.

Considering how expensive the RTX 5080 has become, the RTX 5090 must cost close to $2500 but nothing is final yet. However, the rumored pricing of RTX 5080 does show us the insane and nonsense move by NVIDIA due to the absence of any competition at the high-end level. RTX 5080 will ship with a lower VRAM capacity than RTX 4090 except that the memory type is GDDR7 which runs at 30 Gbps but it is reportedly bringing a $300 jump over the RTX 4080 and about a $500 jump over the RTX 4080 Super.

In the past decade, NVIDIA has drastically increased the price of the 80-class cards and Blackwell seems to have broken this record. Don’t forget that we are only talking about the purchase price here as the MSRP is going to exceed $2,799 with premium editions in Australia, which comes at around US$1,739.