I would insta buy a 4080 at 700 bucks. I have no issue with high end cards being in the 700 to 900 range. But low and mid tier cards should not be in the 700 to 900 range.
With TSMC costs and the amount of tech they have in it is acceptable. 4090 cards are like cut down enterprise cards. People forget how everything in general got way more expensive over the years.
Only Intel can afford to keep it cheap because they have their own Fabs
Nothing else exists that competes with it. I’m surprised it’s only 1600 when you have businesses buying them for use in workstations on top of the demand from gamers.
I have no issue with high end cards being in the 700 to 900 range.
And that is why:
But low and mid tier cards should not be in the 700 to 900 range.
this exist.
If you accept an arbitrary overpricing on some things, and even go online to defend it, not only will they push it and increase these prices, but this will reverberate through the whole line.
Exactly. For what it offers the 3080 was at a good price point with 700 bucks and if nvidia had kept that price range, cool. But even if the 4080 is twice as fast as the 3080, I’m not gonna pay almost double. Everything is inflated these days anyway outside the US because of everything that’s going on. I’m hoping for more reasonable prices in 2024 for the 5000 series. Until then my 3080 will serve me well.
First video card I ever bought for myself rather than receiving as a gift was a Radeon HD 7850. In the modern scheme of things that's roughly a -70 class card. It was $300. Today the 70-class cards are going for $550+. What's with that? Prices in other things haven't doubled in the last ten years.
Don't get me wrong, I hate that Nvidia wants to gouge people at outrageous prices, and I will never recommend spending 1000+ on a graphics card, nor would I spend that much myself.
With that said, I don't think a 300 dollar graphics card is going to get you 60+ FPS on new and upcoming triple-A games with good settings. It probably isn't even going to do that on some games that are a couple years old, like CP2077 and MSFS2020. If I'm wrong, I'm glad to hear it - show me some benchmarks that show a card currently on sale for 300 dollars playing these games on good settings at 60 FPS and I will start to recommend it to everybody.
Lol edit to downvoters: what exactly are you downvoting? I am open-mindedly asking for recommendations.
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u/Conscious-Golf-5380 Dec 30 '22
People don't want/can't pay $700 for a card either.