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hinch said:

The 4080 is such a scam tbh. It a good product with a nonsensical price. But in all honestly not that great of a generational uplift considering the downsides of power size and price to last generation hardware.

I'm more inclined to buy a mid range AMD card next year if Nvidia starts bumping up prices for SKU's all round. Or look for a good second hand 3080 on Ebay. Because F supporting these shitty prices and enabling and encouraging them to keep sky high prices.

The value of these cards are pretty shocking to be honest with no real movement in performance per dollar/pound/euro unless you get a $1600 graphics card. Or a $1000 card which only performs similarly to last gen's 3090Ti in Raytracing. Raster performance is good enough at 3080 levels of performance, at 4K anything more is a bonus.

Yea Nvidia went full Nvgreed mode this time around. If there's one thing this shows us is that without competition, Nvidia would increase their prices to unobtainable levels if anyone wants any meaningful increases gen on gen. 3000 series had great prices because AMD was so competitive but 4000 series has shit prices because AMD is back to being AD103 competitor. They also know that AMD is not able to match RT either which is a key selling point that will always be brought up along with DLSS.

So the PC industry is again stuck in a shitty situation. Before it was the miners, now its Nvidia and AMD to a degree (Looking at 7900XT). I think if Lovelace sells similar to Turing where the sales weren't very good, Blackwell might trend back to Ampere in terms of pricing and performance. But that's another two years of waiting. So now it's back to Ampere or RDNA 2 in terms of affordable GPUs but Ampere is basically just back to 2020 MSRP while RDNA 2 is getting meaningful discounts.

So overall, it's like, buy Nvidia for a premium and get the features while supporting their shitty pricing or buy AMD and just deal with it until Nvidia learns a lesson. Quite lame considering the PC gaming side hasn't seen such insane amount of support from devs in quite a few generations.