Yeah Nvidia are too stubborn to charge less for even older cards. At least there are some good RDNA 2 DGPU's deals to be had, but it still kinda feels bad buying into these cards when they are essentially 2 years old, EOL stock. The only other alternative is to pay slightly more for newer tech, but also goes backwards in some ways like in total bus, or a lesser amount of VRAM. That, or go full hog with the 4090, but thats way out of my budget.
Its just a little depressing to see that an old last gen card is still one of the best value cards you can get rn. Like by now we should have mid ranged GPU's with 16GB VRAM standard with next gen GPU's. But here we are with sub $600 192-bit XX60 tier cards with 12GB VRAM barely enough to keep up with last gen.
The annoying this is, is the obvious market segmentation where the 'mid ranged' buyers are totally f'd waiting for these mid cards and we're charged a premium for the privelege for it. Such a shame because the hardware they have is great but the way all of this is handled and at eregious prices makes it all crap.
Hopefully with the 4070 release we'll see a turning point in all this madness. And at least the 7800 XT should be quite a bit under $600. So, thats something lol.
