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Cyran said:

JEMC said:
^I doubt Big Navi will be able to compete with the 3090. Trading blows with the 3080? Sure, that should be its natural position or, if everything goes perfect, maybe even sitting between the 3080 and the 3090, forcing Nvidia to rething the pricing of all its high end range or cards.

And I doubt Nvidia will raise the prices again. Not that they don't want to, mind you, but given the current climate with a possible economy crash and the launch of the new consoles, I think it's not the best time to raise them again.

I mostly agree with that except I really don't think Consoles a concern for Nvidia (at the 3080/3090 level in lower models maybe).  I don't believe the type of person willing to spend over 1000 dollars on just a video card is the type of person that going to decide they rather game on a console then a PC.

You may be right.

The way I see it, the segment of the gaming comunity that buys those high end cards is rather small, you only have to check the Steam hardware survey at Conina's thread and realize that the most popular Nvidia cards are the xx60 ones, and it's compromised mostly be either the one that carry the "PC Master Race" flag or the ones that just love gaming and get every system available to be able to play every game released.

The launch of the new consoles, specially these ones that look like they'll be around the 500 $/€ mark, can mean that the part of the group that will buy them can decide to hold the purchase of a new GPU until a later date, even more so if the price goes up again.