Nvidia’s RTX 4090 and 4080 will be debuting in laptops very soon, and we’ve got another glimpse at pricing – confirming just how affordable laptops featuring these GPUs can be, particularly the flagship Lovelace model.
The new pricing is from Micro Center, which now lists MSI gaming laptops as Wccftech (Opens in a new tab) reports, with the top model being the MSI Titan 17 (Opens in a new tab) With an RTX 4090. This laptop weighs in at around $4,700 (about £3,800, AU$6,800) in the US (it also has a powerful Core i9-13980HX processor, the flagship Intel Raptor Lake).
For an MSI Raider 17 with an RTX 4080 laptop graphics card (and the same CPU), the version with 32GB of DDR5 RAM plus a 2TB SSD retails for $3,300. (Opens in a new tab) (about £2,700, AU$4,700), but you’ll pay $4,000 (Opens in a new tab) (about £3,300, AU$5,700) if you want 64GB of RAM (and the same 2TB SSD).
Remember, Nvidia said the RTX 4080 and 4090 laptops will start at $1,999 in the US, but given the prices here, they’re well above that level if you want high-end gaming on the go with the powerful Lovelace GPU.
The good news, price-wise, is that for Lovelace GPUs under the top two — namely the RTX 4050 through the 4070 — Nvidia has said prices will start at $999, which isn’t too far off from that. MSI Katana 15 (Opens in a new tab) With the RTX 4060 (plus a Core i7-12650H and 16GB of DDR5 RAM) it sells for $1,200 (about £980, AU$1,720) at Micro Center.
Spin RTX 4050 (Opens in a new tab) Their new Katana 15 isn’t any cheaper, mainly because it bumps up the CPU to a Raptor Lake Core i7 (and doubles the size of the SSD to 1TB); So the choice is GPU vs CPU plus more storage.
Analysis: MSI’s pricing appears to be consistent with other early listings
This backs up what we’ve already seen in Europe show the RTX 4090 as seriously The price. If you recall, the price of the XMG Neo 16 gaming laptop with an RTX 4090 is €3,886 (about $4,200, £3,400, AU$6,000), with the €637 GPU over the RTX 4080 as an upgrade.
So, with the 4090 being €637 more expensive than the (actually expensive) 4080 in Europe, and another $700 in the US, this seems pretty consistent. In short, this is probably the kind of pricing we can expect going forward from other laptop makers, at least in the near future anyway — and with these high-end cards, especially the RTX 4090, you’re really paying a huge premium.
That premium might be worth it to some people who simply want the most powerful laptop they can get their hands on for gaming or creative work, but for some of the enthusiast community (high-end mobile devices are already being moved) it’s probably something of a prestige by definition. ).
In particular, as we’ve discussed in the past, the RTX 4090 laptop GPU is only equivalent to the desktop RTX 4080 (or thereabouts). It simply isn’t possible to jam the huge, power-hungry AD102 chip found in a desktop RTX 4090 into a laptop chassis, so Nvidia chose to use the AD103 (4080 desktop chip) in its flagship laptop.
At the very least, the better news is the pricing on the lower-tier Lovelace models, with even the RTX 4070 coming in at a (relatively) much more affordable price tag. MSI Pulse 15 (Opens in a new tab) The RTX 4070 costs $1,700 (about £1,380, AU$2,440), which isn’t far from half the cost of the more expensive RTX 4080 model (although it has a high-end Core i9 Raptor Lake processor too, compared to a Core i7 for the pulse ).
Micro Center MSI laptop listings refer to “Product [is] Coming soon’ and pre-orders are actually supposed to start on February 1st, so it’s only two weeks from now, before the RTX 4090 and 4080 notebooks go on sale on February 8th. 4060, 4070 – It’ll arrive a bit later in the month on February 22nd, or at least that’s what we’ve heard (add a proper dose of skepticism).
Of course, it makes sense that these laptops would be released soon since we’re seeing multiple product listings pop up at the moment.