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JEMC said:

vivster said:

You're focusing too much on the names of the cards. Just because they're named the same gen after gen doesn't mean they need to service the same power or price bracket. If a 2080 is indeed 40% faster than a 2080ti costing as much as it seems logical because that's about a generational leap. And if a 3070 is 40% faster than a 2080 is might as well cost as much as it. Don't think of it as Nvidia shifting prices, but them shifting model numbers. As far as we know now the 3080ti might not even exist and the 3090 is a new special kind of prosumer card.

But they're replacing those cards and therefore need to remain in the same ballpark.

If you're replacing a 600€ card, the most logical thing is to do it with a new product that remain close to that price point, not with one that costs twice as much, because in that case you're not replacing one product with another, your cancelling one product line for another.

You are also not getting more performance per dollar.

If you go from spending $600 to $1200 on a GPU (I.E. 100% increase in price), but performance only increases by 50%, then AMD/nVidia is charging you more per fps gained, it's poor value and not beneficial to the consumer.