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Black Friday sales have slashed the RTX 3080 GPU back down to £700 / $700Half the price of some RTX 4080 models, and still great for 4K
Half the price of some RTX 4080 models, and still great for 4K
Two years on and I’d more or less forgotten what a fairly pricedRTX 3080looked like. Yet on the eve ofBlack Friday 2022, a couple of early deals have presented that most elusive of sights: Nvidia’sbest graphics card for 4K, down to a perfectly reasonable £700 / $700.
I should highlight, mind you, that the Newegg listing for the US is a pre-order; the graphics card model itself won’t release until December 14th. Though for what it’s worth, that’s less than three weeks, which shouldn’t be too patience-testing. I had a mate on an RTX 3080 waiting list for the best part of a year before he snapped and bought anRTX 3090instead.
UK deal:
PNY GeForce RTX 3080 Revel Epic-X- £700 from Ebuyer (was £800)
US deal:
Maxsun GeForce RTX 3080 iCraft OC - $700 from Newegg (was $940)
Upgrading to what is technically a last-gen GPU usually carries some concerns, and skipping the new RTX 40 series (not to mention AMD’sRadeon RX 7000cards) is a big call to be sure. The RTX 3080 doesn’t currently supportDLSS 3, for example. But at these prices, the RTX 3080 does significantly undercut every single one of the announced new-gen GPUs so far, while still having the muscle for high-quality graphics at demanding resolutions. It’s therefore still worth buying, at least until Nvidia or AMD produce a new, lower-cost GPU of similar ability. And that could take months.
There are many more graphics card, PC component, and peripheral offers to consider in ourearly Black Friday dealshub. That’s something of a highlight reel; our friends at Eurogamer also have a more focused guide to thebest Black Friday GPU dealsspecifically.
