After complaints surrounding GeForce RTX 40-Series pricing.

Earlier this week, Nvidia announced its adjacent bid of GeForce RTX cards - and raised eyebrows astatine however overmuch immoderate of them volition cost.

At the apical end, the RTX 4090 volition outgo an eye-watering $1599. The RTX 4080 16GB volition outgo $1199, portion the RTX 4080 12GB volition outgo $899.

Many had hoped for little prices - but, according to Nvidia brag Jensen Huang, these costs bespeak a satellite wherever Moore's instrumentality - wherever show is doubled for fractional the terms each 2 years - is present "dead".

"Moore's Law is dead," Huang said, arsenic reported by Digital Trends. "A 12-inch wafer is simply a batch much costly today. The thought that the spot is going to spell down successful terms is simply a communicative of the past."

That said, Nvidia has had plentifulness to boast astir with the 40-Series range. The 4090 and 4080 are the archetypal GPUs from the company's 'Ada Lovelace' series, and should beryllium up to doubly arsenic accelerated arsenic their last-gen counterparts successful rasterised games - and up to 4 times arsenic accelerated successful ray-traced games.

The company's RTX 3080 besides remains available.

"The RTX 4080 16GB is 3x the show of the RTX 3080 Ti connected adjacent gen contented similar Cyberpunk with RT Overdrive mode oregon Racer RTX - for the aforesaid price," an Nvidia spokesperson told Eurogamer today. "And the RTX 4080 12GB is 3x the show of the RTX 3080 12GB for $100 less.

"They are a fantastic worth comparative to likewise priced RTX 3080 GPUs. However we cognize that the RTX 3080 10GB is an unthinkable worth and we'll proceed to connection it."

For much connected RTX 4090, Digital Foundry is already hands-on with Nvidia's caller cards.