As Black Friday rages on, many PC gamers are taking the opportunity to upgrade their rigs with all the latest hardware at discount prices, particularly on a new graphics card that'll make your favorite PC games look their best. However, with all the Black Friday graphics card deals around you might struggle to find a good one, let alone an MSRP RTX 3080. Don't worry; I've turned over every rock to find you the best deals on the card at the top of our best graphics card guide. (Unfortunately for me, I didn't find any RTX 3080s hiding in my backyard).
As Nvidia releases its RTX 40-series cards you should expect to see some deals on last-generation RTX 30-series cards throughout the holiday. Though the RTX 4080 outperforms the RTX 3080 and even the RTX 3080 Ti by a pretty large margin, it costs a whole lot more, too. The MSRP for the RTX 4080 is $1,599, while a new RTX 3080 goes for $699, typically.
So yeah, these last-gen GPUs are more appealing. Retailers have been selling RTX 3080s for well above MSRP over the last year or so, sometimes even double, and are finally selling them back down at their regular price of $699… and calling it a Black Friday deal. Gross, right?
Notice that I said 'new' RTX 3080s. That's because you'll find quite a lot of used and refurbished RTX 3080 GPUs selling for $525-$600 floating around from third-party sellers on Newegg and Amazon. I'd do my best to avoid the temptation since you have no idea what these cards were used for in their previous life, especially since GPU mining for cryptocurrency has only declined recently. This means former miners are dumping their overworked cards onto the second-hand market.
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Thankfully, I was able to track down a handful of cheap RTX 3080s on both Amazon and Newegg that are worth a look. So, here are the RTX 3080 GPUs I've found that are as close to as possible, or below, the $699 MSRP.
The cheapest one I spotted so far was the Gigabyte Aorus RTX 3080 Master 10GB GPU for $659, which is actually below MSRP. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing it's sold out. But it's worth clicking Auto Notify on Newegg and keeping an eye on throughout the weekend since items do get restocked.
The triple-fanned Peladn Gaming RTX 3080 is going for $699 right now. Yeah, it's only $20 cheaper than what it normally goes for, but even this slight discount makes it the cheapest new RTX 3080 that's in stock right now.
This $732 Zotac Gamin RTX 3080 OC 10GB actually had a recent price drop of over $100 early last week to hit this price, and there seems to be plenty in stock on Amazon.
Well, this Maxsun RTX 3080 Icraft 10GB was selling for $699 earlier today, and its price oddly spiked up to $884. There's a good chance that the price may go back down as part of Newegg's Cyber Monday deals.
The Yeston RTX 3080 10GB is one of the nicest looking RTX 3080s you can buy right now for $769. It's about $300 cheaper than what it usually sells for, and it's got a nice looking cherry blossom look to it. FYI, this GPU doesn't come out until the end of the month, so this would be a pre-order.
