I miss the days of being able to buy flagship cards for not much more than 500, compared to present times
I miss the days of being able to buy flagship cards for not much more than 500, compared to present times
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I started getting into pc gaming in the gtx 480 era. Back then I thought the gtx 590 and Radeon 5990/6990 were expensive. Little did I know.
Holy shit for a sec i thought this was another “did i get scammed?” posts lmao. Then i’ve got you bought that 980ti back in its days.
The more accurate comparison here would be the $999 4080 Super, rather than the 4090, which is more directly comparable to the Titan X which had an MSRP of $999.
According to the Bank of England own inflation calculator that card would now cost £853.
There’s a Mexican food place that’s been in my area for like 30 years. Used to get them all the time.
My order has always been the same. Used to cost $8.16. Now it costs $16.24. It’s the same item.
Inflation not unique to Gpus.
I miss the gaming bundles. My 970 came with Arkham knight, the Witcher 3 and metro exodus. It was launch day at scan, and they were also giving free copies of crysis and joking we could finally play it on the 970
I remember doing an RMA on my 780 Ti, and getting yelled out by my wife when she saw the value of the card on the RMA slip (she was printing it out for me, not being nosy… ok, she was being a little nosy).
I’ll print everything out at work if I ever have to RMA my 4090, for the sake of the marriage.
However, she has a Mac. If it comes up again, I’ll rationally point out the price to performance numbers of my PC vs her Mac. I’m sure it’ll go over well.
People from North America and Europe in general should not complain as it could be so much worse.
In Brazil you need an entire year of minimun wage to buy a flagship, the cheapest 4090 costs 12.000 BRL. And Brazil surprisingly isn’t the worst yet.
I still remember getting my 1080Ti for $700 USD shipped and thinking that was absolutely bonkers LOL
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Moore’s Law deterioration.
Is that Argos? Argos sells 4090s?!
I remember this arkham knight promotion like it was last week holy fuck.
Do y’all like gigabyte cards? They always seem so flimsy
Less than 2 years after you bought this I paid £700 for a 1080Ti FE from ebuyer, so already more than 30% increase for the top end card.
The most I ever paid was 600$. That’s was for the BFG first ever gtx card right before quad sli drivers came out. I bought 2 of them and had to wait 2 months to be able to use them both.
That’s the good old days
How is 641 “not much more” than 500? Also calculating in inflation, that’s 850 pounds now, which is almost 1100 dollars.
I got a brand new GTX 1080 the week they came out for $580
I think one thing a lot of people miss is that you can’t compare the price of a “top end card” from 10 years ago to today because companies change what kind of products they’re willing to sell. 10 years ago there may have been fewer people willing to dish a lot of money for higher performance so they limited it to $500 cards but now there’s more of a market for it so they invest the time/effort to produce even higher end cards that do cost more.
Bruh… AND with bundled AAA games too!?
Ya I remember when 300$ was huge amount of money to drop on GPU
Yep. But the consumer is to blame. When cryptocurrency mining happened, GPUs sold out and continued to do so at the inflated prices. We essentially told the companies we’re absolutely fine paying $1000 for a GPU. So, here we are. We screwed ourselves.
If Taiwan was attacked or blocked, those prices we see today would be considered nothing compared to what we would see.
In 2015 I could buy a hamburger with one euro. Now after 9 years the same hamburger from the same fast food costs almost 5 euro.
The inflation is not the same for pc parts but it’s still bad.
I miss the old days like you do bro 😔
You can in part thank the cryptominers for that.
Shouldnt you compare it to Titan X? 3090/4090 feels like a Titan rebrand, in case AMD decided to release something faster. Nvidia can respond with a titan with more cores. Prolly similar priced also. But Lowrange is completely gone.. midrange prolly also in few generations 🙁
What Nvidia is doing with Quadro is much more annoying, removed most of the features making it special, while doubling the price :
I’m only pissed off about the fact that my 3090 will be the last EVGA Nvidia card I will have 🙁 I’m upgrading to 5090 when it drops.
We haven’t seen the end of it. Prices will go up.
Adjust it for inflation and you’re closer to £900 now. So still **80 tier pricing.
My 980ti was over $800. It did have a water block on it tho
it is absolutely sickening and has nothing to to with inflation rate, people just pay it and there we are.
As a PC gamer since 2010 I have been nearly priced out of my hobby and it feels pretty terrible. I usually opt for the highest end card of each generation. Now I have to just get whatever I can afford which is usually $600 or lower, I settled on a used 6900XT a few years ago for the remaining future, I use to stick with Nvidia cards but now they use atrocious business practices by making their lowest end cards absolute trash on price to performance ratio and also gimping them with low amounts of vram on purpose to drive you to buying the highest end cards which I cant even afford without going into some sort of debt.
Got my sphire nirto pure 6950xt 6 months after it came out for £1500 for £516 gotta love that one year cycle.
We can thank crypto for ruining it. When AMgreed and Ngreedia realized people would still shell out a king’s ransom for GPUs, they decided to milk us dry.
The 90 is not the flagship. It’s the enthusiast level. Of course you are going to pay more. The 80 is the flagship
I had this deal. Then I went to a 2080ti and then a 4090. I need to stop chasing the dragon.
Bought my 1080ti for 725$ back during the year of its release
I remember buying an X800XT (or X850XT?) for £330 in 2005 (Roughly) that was much easier on the wallet for a top end gaming card.
Same price I got my 1080ti for 1 month after launch
Google inflation
Blame All the mining, scalpers, productivity, and AI Fucktards, who bought gaming gpus like crazy the last 7 years to make a quick buck. I Hope Nvidia gimps future RTX cards to be only used for gaming if it means we can get flagship **gaming** gpus for under $1000. But knowing them they won’t or will but keep these inflated prices.
Those 1k cards aren’t even worth it imo.