This should reassure a little those who had yesterday's news stuck in their throats, while an Australian store would have contacted a content creator in order to present him with a very high price for an ASUS GeForce RTX 5080 Prime OC.
This time we are going to X.com, to observe a short message from a fairly renowned leaker of the platform in terms of hardware: @wxnod:
On the small image, written in Chinese, we can read a very simple message which announces that the graphics cards GeForce RTX 5090 et GeForce RTX 5080 would therefore be available in January 2025, at prices starting at 18,999 yuan for the RTX 5090 and 9,999 yuan for the RTX 5080. We obviously take out the mittens as always before anything else to detach ourselves a little from all these announcements which are flying in all directions, but let's analyze a little bit what this would mean and whether it corroborates or contradicts yesterday's rumor.
First of all, VAT is 13% in China on computer products which would make prices excluding tax of 16,813 yuan for the RTX 5090 and 8,849 yuan for the RTX 5080, in base price therefore for the models entry-level. We first take out the converter to switch to dollars as it is the reference currency in the world of hardware, and we then obtain $2304 for the RTX 5090 and $1212 for the RTX 5080 and could therefore mean, with rounding However, we would then be heading towards official MSRPs from NVIDIA at $2299 for the RTX 5090 and $1199 for the RTX 5080 which would make sense, it must be said. A price in dollars which would therefore be much lower for the RTX 5080 than the previous rumor, which will both reassure many potential buyers, but also reassure us in the fact that the rumors should only be taken as what they are. they are: rumors, and in this sense the one we are talking about should be treated with the same level of suspicion…
We end by passing, as we did with yesterday's rumor, what this would give in terms of prices including tax in France if the US MSRPs were confirmed at $2,299 and $1,199: a call price of €2,645 including tax for the RTX 5090 and at least €1380 for the RTX 5080, once again based on this new rumor of the day. All that remains is to wait for another to come and contradict all of this, tomorrow why not?
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