Personally, even if RDNA 3 cards ends up being terrible, I still wouldn't recommend people getting the 4080. There's just too much of a price increase for what people are getting. I think a lot of people will be happy getting 3080 12GB or 3080 Ti for $500-$600 and sticking it out for 5000 series or 6000 series. Cause unless the reviews say otherwise, the 4080 12GB is slightly slower than a 3090 Ti for $900. A 3080 Ti is within 5-10% of the 3090 Ti.

So overall, unless you are getting a 4090 or waiting for RDNA 3, buy Ampere or RDNA 2 and spend the money you saved on hookers or something.

I hope for a nice leap. With the prices they need something to at least somewhat justify them.

While I and no doubt, some others would never really leave the market if such a thing were to happen, I cannot say the same for those that have spend the past decade, being gimped by both nvidia or AMD in different regions. I certainly don't want to see PC gaming reach this far, only to let 1-2 GPU leaders go mad with greed and then severely cripple the market, that could take years to recover with regained trust/decent pricing. 

After seeing the prices of at least 2 of their cards, yeah, I think EVGA made the right call, they wouldn't be able to sell their own 80/90 cards at even higher prices than Nvidia currently set them as, and trying to sell them cheaper would just mean losing out on any profit, meaning they'd be fucked if they did decide to sell.

I just think nvidia is a case of what happens when you get high end market domination for nearly a decade and a half (I'm talking most wins/sales in general).

let's be brutally real here, jay didn't properly apologise in that supposed "I was wrong" video of his, so seeing him super chlillax about this, while everyone is is rightly shocked/alarmed and being priced out, it makes his situation all too clear; he just doesn't care about his viewers pockets, because he's already well fed.

Man do I miss when Youtubers were literally average joes, not ppl with patreons, ad rev, youtube and merch money combined, it's no wonder he isn't moved by this, because he knows he can easily afford multiple of either card for himself to test out (lot of good that's gonna do reviewing them, when a large chunk of us cannot afford either and won't likely be buying either at all).

Now there's a thought, what if that's Nvidia's goal?.

Think about it, if they force AIB partners to sell the older cards at a loss, that's one less problem for Nvidia to care about, or bring up at board meetings for shareholders (they can legit just tell shareholders that they sold the majority of them and not tell the partners of the AIB's failing in profits), and at the same time, this would allow the AIB's to fall short and give Nvidia the forefront of selling the newer cards, while the AIB's still play catch up, or hesitate to sell their own, that would give Nvidia an insane amount of power and even more leverage to cut out the middle-men. 

That would be absolutely evil as shit to do though, and I hope to god that isn't one of their plans, because if I were an AIB partner, I'd get the fuck outta there if that were to happen. 

personally, even if consoles were made available again, I can never go back to them. I just cannot stand the lacking freedom, the software I currently use, the subscription plans for the crap that's on there (netflix, hulu, all that shit, online gameplay, lack of modding, etc, it all feels so restrictive to me still). 

Feels like Asus just said fuck you to Nvidia by showing a Radeon card during their 40 series card briefing

I will now officially end building rigs. PC gaming will become very, very small at those prices. Not like I play much modern stuff anyway.

I think now is the perfect time for all other AIB partners to start flaunting off AMD cards, especially with what happened to EVGA, because if Nvidia wants to cut out the middle-man, and with that high MSRP, sell even fewer high end cards, then elt them lie in that bed they've smugly made, they deserve to get backlash from us and the AIB's.

This is exactly why I hate Tim Sweeney for wanting to "cut out the middle-man", by himself becoming the only one. Fuck that shit, the world needs middle-men in a variety of markets/vendors. Having only the supplier and the customer leads to the slippiest of slopes. 

I hardly bother with AAA games these days anyway. They are either too expensive for me, too stupidly large in file-size, come with loaded DRM, demand I install another fucking client just to launch them, come with MTX, season pass and battle pass crap, always online shit. AAA's have basically been morphing into the stuff I hate in gaming, and it's why I've largely shifted over to indie games, cheaper, fun and easy to mod, less DRM, no extra launchers needed, etc. 

AAA gaming won't go back to the early 00's days, all the bad practices that make them what they are today are never really going to go away. 

Same for me, the last AAA I bought were Dragon Age: Origins and Might & Magic X some 10 years ago. I could feel even back then that the industry was moving in a direction that didn't fit well with me in the slightest.

That being said, I still game on a 1050Ti, and it's getting limited even in indies now, so something new must come in. But something like a 3060Ti/RX 6700 would be amply enough for me and wouldn't overtax my power bill or overheat my room.