Nvidia’s RTX 4090 laptop computer GPU was revealed at CES 2023, however if you would like this power-packed graphics card, how a lot will it price you? The unsurprising reply is a small fortune, going by the worth of an improve to the RTX 4090 on an XMG gaming laptop computer.
VideoCardz (opens in new tab) noticed that in a YouTube video from Jarrod’sTech (opens in new tab), pricing is listed for the assorted RTX 40 Collection graphics card choices that consumers can select from when buying XMG’s Neo 16, an incoming gaming moveable packing Intel’s Core i9-13900HX Raptor Lake CPU (and an entire load of different high-end goodies).
The bottom mannequin of the Neo 16 comes with the RTX 4060, retailing at €2,199 (round $2,360, £1,940, AU$3,420). If you wish to improve that to the RTX 4090, the price is a whopping €1,687 (round $1,810, £1,490, AU$2,630).
XMG’s costs for different Nvidia Lovelace GPUs come to a comparatively palatable €375 (round $400, £330, AU$580) for the RTX 4070, however then the RTX 4080 is pitched at €1,050 (round $1,130, £930, AU$1,640).
The Neo 16, and different RTX 40 Collection laptops, might be out in February.
Evaluation: Pushing the boundaries of pricing (once more)
Nvidia’s newly revealed GPUs are dear, you say? Nicely, who’d have believed it…
In fact, the truth that the RTX 4090 is dear in its laptop computer incarnation is hardly a shock, and once more trying on the desktop pricing, the RTX 4080 additionally being an enormous monetary ask is equally predictable.
If we contemplate the entire price of the RTX 4090 going by XMG’s pricing, the price of the improve is sort of €1,700 as talked about, however for the entire theoretical worth, we should additionally contemplate that you just’re already paying for the RTX 4060 within the entry-level mannequin’s price ticket – so we will bung that on high.
That means that the RTX 4090 laptop computer GPU should come shut to 2 grand in Euros, and that’s concerning the asking worth for the a desktop RTX 4090 (at main German retailer MindFactory, on the time of writing). So, a method to take a look at that is the laptop computer model of this GPU is simply as costly because the desktop incarnation’s eye-watering price ticket.
And naturally, the laptop computer tackle the Lovelace flagship isn’t practically as performant because the desktop card – it attracts quite a bit much less wattage, after all, at 150W TGP (plus a 25W dynamic increase) – however what you’re paying for right here is the flexibility to suit as a lot energy as potential into a comparatively small case (a laptop computer chassis).
Nonetheless, the query stays – do you actually need to fork out that a lot for a pocket book graphics card? One which has the identical CUDA Core depend because the RTX 4080 desktop, and sure comparable efficiency to that card (in a best-case situation, it’s maybe a bit slower in the primary). You possibly can wager there are people on the market already reaching for his or her wallets, although…
