GPU Price Drops: RTX 4090 and RTX 4070 Hit New Lows Ahead of Prime Day

Better Than Prime Day: The MSI GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming Trio GPU Is Priced Under MSRP - IGN

Today there's a GeForce RTX 4090 GPU that's actually priced below MSRP! Lenovo is currently offering the MSI GeForce RTX 4090 GAMING TRIO 24GB Graphics Card for only $1519.99 after a 5% off coupon code "EXTRAFIVE". Note that aside from seeing this same deal once before (it sold out quickly), we haven't seen another RTX 4090 for under MSRP for at least a year. If you'd rather wait for Amazon Prime Day, don't bother. There is absolutely no indication that you'll see a better price than this within the next few days. The GeForce RTX 4090 is one of our top GPU picks of 2024. It is far and away the most powerful video card you can get right now. No other GPU, either from NVIDIA or from AMD, comes close. As a reference, the RTX 4090 is about 110% faster at 4K gaming than the already impressive RTX 3080. It's about 60% faster than the previous king, the RTX 3090 Ti. That could very well be the single biggest performance upgrade within a single generational gap for the GeForce line of cards. Check out our comprehensive RTX 4090 review. The MSI Gaming Trio model boasts a massive 3 slot triple-fan cooler that does an outstanding job of keeping the GPU cool, and does so at respectable noise levels. The backplate has a vented passthrough design to help move air over your hot motherboard southbridge compenents. The fans are thermally controlled, so they won't spin at all when you're not playing games or doing anything intensive. The MSI Suprim Liquid X RTX 4090 has a self-contained watercooled unit. Make sure you have space in your PC to mount the 240mm radiator. If you do, you'll have the best stock cooling solution for an RTX 4090 GPU on the market. The extra cooling isn't really meant for overclocks (the 4090 is fast enough). Instead, it's meant for the GPU to run cooler and quieter than air-cooling. Because the radiator can be mounted away from the GPU and works to exhaust the hot air directly our of your computer case, your GPU area won't be super toasty. Lower sustained temps also means lower fan noise. There are many reasons why you'd want such a powerful GPU. If you game in 4K and want the maximum performance even with every setting on "Ultra" and ray-tracing on, or high resolution VR, then yes, I'd say it is worth it. If you game at 1440p and want to play at a blistering 240-480fps on any game, then yes, it's worth it, If you're invested in AI and need the VRAM, then again may be worth it. If you're more than happy running games at 1080p or 1440p at 100+fps, or if you play older games like League of Legends of Fortnite, then it most you'd probably be better off getting a more affordable card.

Nvidia RTX 4070 reaches all-time low of $499 before Prime Day -- an excellent deal on one of our favorite graphics cards

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, one of the best graphics cards currently available, has hit its all-time low price of $499 for Prime Day 2024. You can find the card at Newegg, where a $35 instant rebate (code FANDUA5762) drops the price from its normal $535 down to the sub-$500 range. It's an excellent deal on a GPU that offers everything you could want for gaming, AI, and other tasks. If you check our GPU benchmarks hierarchy, you'll see that the RTX 4070 effectively replaces the previous generation RTX 3080 (10GB) while adding new features and capabilities. We're rather ho-hum on DLSS 3 Frame Generation, which adds latency while injecting generated frames into the stream. But even if you dismiss that feature, you get improved video codec support with AV1, plus excellent efficiency. This isn't just a bog-standard, no-frills RTX 4070 card, either. The Gigabyte RTX 4070 Gaming OC comes with triple RGB fans and a large cooler, with some additional lighting on the Gigabyte logo. The factory overclock of 2565 MHz represents a 90 MHz (3.6%) increase over the reference card as well, though in practice, we've seen most 4070 cards run at speeds in excess of 2.7 GHz. You also get 12GB of GDDR6X memory running at 21 Gbps on a 192-bit memory interface. That provides raw bandwidth of 504 GB/s, but the large 36MB L2 cache increases the effective bandwidth by around 50%, meaning the card acts more like it has ~750 MB/s of memory throughput. Ray tracing and AI continue to be strong points for Nvidia's Ada Lovelace RTX 40-series GPUs, and the RTX 4070 outpaces its direct AMD competition, the Radeon RX 7800 XT, by over 20% in our ray tracing tests. AMD's card does hold a 10% advantage in rasterization performance, but when you factor in the superior image quality of DLSS upscaling, plus its wider support base, ultimately, we find the RTX 4070 comes out on top. If you're in the market for a new 'mainstream' graphics card, this likely represents the best deal we'll see on an RTX 4070 until the Black Friday sales arrive in November.