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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

I'm torn with that rumored, still not confirmed, price point. On one hand, it's less than the original 4080 12GB price, which is good news, but on the other side we have Nvidia asking $800 for a xx70Ti card, and that's insane.

And the worst part is that this price makes the rumor of the 4060Ti being $500 more likely to be truth, because there's "only" a $300 gap between both, enough to fit the regular 4070.

Captain_Yuri said:

Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low

Considering the recession and how gaming PCs don't exactly feel affordable, makes sense.

Given the above, I expect 2023 to be even worse.

I don't think value will be the theme of this generation even after all the Ampere cards sell out. Likely Blackwell will bring back value pricing assuming the mining stays dead. But with low PC sales and such, I do think most cards outside of the 4090 will get discounted unlike last generation. But a 6800XT can still be had for $500 so least RDNA 2 is excellent value compared to Nvidia/RDNA 3 pricing.

I agree that, without crypto miners buying all the available cards, stores and AIB/AICs will be forced to bring down the prices if they want sell cards. And the 6800XT may be good value in the US, not so much in the rest of the world.

Now, if AMD keeps the prices of the 7000 cards the same as the ones of the 6000 series, like their did with the 7900 models, there will be a chance to get a 7700XT card with a performance close or better than a 6800XT for those $500 or less. But that's just speculation for a product that hasn't been announced yet.