Though no official release date has been confirmed in the United States, many tech enthusiasts are spreading the rumors that the launch date of “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti” has been fixed on May the 18th, 2021, and the shipment will reach retailers by May the 26th. However, the website named “VideoCardz ” has revealed that retailers present in the international market have already commenced their up-gradation of stores by filling in custom models of “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti ” models. Many tech enthusiasts are pitching the new product as one of the best graphic cards ever produced, but there is still a factor of accessibility and price, which could determine its ultimate fate. The prices, which have been rumored about “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti,” will make the product stay in proximity with the prices of “GeForce RTX 3090” if we are in accordance with the hierarchy created by tom’s Hardware GPU benchmarks. For example, a retailer in the country of New Zealand called “Aquila Technology Ltd” has fixed the new GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) card model “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti” with the version 3X 12G OC from MSI at the price of $2,543.46 New Zealand dollars (NZD) and the model “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti” with the version Gaming OC (designated as GV-N308TGAMING OC-12GD) from Gigabyte fixed at $3,152.50 New Zealand dollars (NZD). Mathematically, if you convert the prices, then you would get $1,831.80 and $2,265.95 for each respective model.

Now, if we can talk about some other countries such as Australia, a native retailer named “Perth Technical Services Pty Ltd” has already stored the new graphic cards of the models “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Eagle” (designated as GV-N308TGAMING OC-12GD) from Gigabyte manufacturer and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Vision OC (designated as GV-N308TGAMING OC-12GD) also from Gigabyte at a high-price of $1,732.75 Australian dollar (which, if you convert, roughly amounts to $1,344.59).

Under normal circumstances, these prices would have been considered placeholders and somewhat understandable; however, given the climate that the graphic card industry is in during the pandemic, the users are expecting the upcoming models to be priced exorbitantly high.

Now, some tech experts have even suggested that the new model “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti” has been rolled out by Gigabyte to compete with Nvidia’s blockbuster model “Radeon RX 6900 XT.” Well, no one can argue against the fact that “GeForce RTX 3080 Ti” is not a worthy competitor of “Radeon RX 6900 XT,” however, the cost of Ampere flagship does come in the $500 additional cost to the one offered by Advanced Micro Devices. In the earlier reports and speculations, it was suggested that the upcoming product “GeForce RTX 3080” would be priced within the range of $999 to offer an adequate alternative Radeon RX 6900 XT, taking the Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) into account.

However, the prices, which have come out of the overseas report, cost is far exceeding the expectations. Nevertheless, we also have to take into account that there are seldom products that do manage to limit themselves with MSRP. There are several factors of logistics, which play their part in deciding the actual pricing of the product. Furthermore, the shipping of the products hasn’t been done under normal circumstances, and we would have to keep in mind the challenges the companies are facing in delivering the products on time during the pandemic.

Eve Martin  arrived on the cyber security scene in the early 2000s when virus and malware were still new and slowly evolving. Her longtime affair with writing with an interest in the cybersecurity industry, combined with her IT degree, has contributed to experience several aspects of security suite industry such as blogging at  mcafee.com/activate  .