Well, you guys have already said it all: outside of the pricing of the 4090, which is relatively ok, the price of both 4080 cards is terrible. The 3070 was a $499 card while the 4080 12GB, which is the true successor of that GPU, is now $400 more. Insane.
And we have to remember that these are the prices for the Founders Edition cards. Third party models will be more expensive than that.
At least there are two things to be hopeful in the future:
1.- AMD doesn't follow Nvidia's insane pricing (at least for its non-flagship cards) and forces Nvidia to drop the prices.
2.- These aren't the "real" prices. They're there to scare us and eye the remaining stock of 3000 series as a valid option. That way they solve their stock inventory problems and, after it's normalized, they'll lower the prices to more reasonable levels.
But, if I'm honest, I don't have much faith in either of them.
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