Hard truths

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  1. FireFalcon123

    Yes, but the modern 80/Ti/Super/90 cards are not 897$

  2. auralbard

    There’s two groups of people, folks who know they’re being assfucked by corporations and folks who need to cope with that reality by pretending it isn’t happening.

  3. TheKubesStore

    That’s about where the current handheld performance level is at for about that price yea

  4. Ryoohki_360

    Yeah but the cost per wafer exploded since 10nm, there no saving now when you do it lower. That’s why console are stucks with 6nm if they drop to 5nm or 4nm they would need to raise the price considerably .

  5. xXCrazyDaneXx

    I see that spending all that time studying econometrics was a waste. Apparently, inflation is the only variable you need in order to analyse prices over time.

    Anything not accounted for by inflation can be found in the coffers of greedy corporations…

  6. Yeah the 2080Ti launched for 1K

    3080 – 700

    4090 – 1600

    How much people actually got it at that price?

    Likewise…you’d swear someone is holding a gun to everyone’s head forcing them to buy NVidia when there is another option. So, while NVidia grows its market share to 88% while jacking up prices, people rather bitch meme. 🤣

  7. IANvaderZIM

    We’re not concerned about the 28% inflation in just 7 years?

  8. AngryTree76

    Am I the only one bothered by OP using the wrong comparison sign?

  9. ew435890

    I picked one up (non TI) not too long ago. It will be going in a build for my10 year old nephew.

  10. MrOphicer

    I will never get why people do mental gymnastics to defend a multi-trillion company that doesn’t care if you live or die. We get it, you love the product, maybe have some shares, and you are part of the green team. But Nvidia has been vile to the gaming community. They could charge the premium to the AI/crypto people, why do gamers need to pay the insane premium Nvidia tax?

  11. Don’t care about the super high end cards. The xx70 series was always a good valuu, but a rtx 4070 is >600€, and my 1070ti costed a bit over 300€.

    Inflation didn’t accumulate to 100% in 8 years

  12. Intelligent_League_1

    Now the current Nahvidia flagship is 2k.

    Atleast my 4070S was a good price.

  13. howsyourmemes

    I built a “top of line” machine in 2017, complete with 1080ti, for $2200. Had pretty much best of everything at the time within reason: multiple ssds, nvme i think, new 27in monitor, 32gb ram, etc. The processor was an i7? I don’t remember and I’m not gonna dig it out. I specifically got just about the best of everything that I could, all intel.

    I built my new one in April with a 7800x3d, 7900xtx, 32gb ddr5 6000, msi x670e, .5 and 4tb nvmes, aio, 32in 4k 144hz monitor for $3600. It wasn’t the *best* of every single part, especially the video card, but damn close, and all amd this time. When I got the price total on pcpp I about fainted.

    Don’t know what this says just pumping in my 2 cents

  14. FireStorm4056

    Much of this is due to the increasing cost and difficulty of continuing to shrink transistor sizes. Doubling density is astronomically harder today than it was 10-20 years ago, so each % of performance gain gen-over-gen costs more than it ever has. Fab output (supply) is also limited at the cutting edge since there are so few fabs competing there. Apple, Nvidia, etc all want the latest tech and bid against each other to secure allocations – which are ultimately finite.

    Nvidia has definitely taken great advantage of the factors involved to extract tons of profit. However, compared to many other industries currently, the GPU space does still have significant real-world factors contributing to price increases.

  15. Luxury products are not tie to inflation. They are tie to what ppl are willing to pay for them.

  16. TylerDog3

    but we aint making 30% more money than we were in 2017

  17. eXistenceLies

    Still running my 1080ti on water. It’s starting to show it’s age. As well as my 7700k. I want to upgrade but I don’t lol.

  18. BlastMode7

    Well, the 4080 released for $1,200 and the 4080 Super sells for $1,000 to $1,200. So, despite your best efforts, this is still copium.

  19. Still got my 1080ti I think it still works, the psu gave out so I upgraded the rig entirely to 14900k and a 4090

  20. poweredbylight

    I got my 1080 6 years ago for 600 dollars. It’s been playing shit at 1440p (to this day) on mostly high settings. If a similarly priced card today, adjusted for inflation can do that, then sign me up.

  21. EmperorThor

    Yeah i remember buying a 1080Ti new for like $900 in 2018 and that was okish, but now a 4080 is $2300 or more. That is not inflation. that is not the increases cost of manufacturing, that is price gouging and profiteering

  22. AllMyFrendsArePixels

    $897 is >$700 even without inflation. I’m not sure you used the right mathematical symbol there. The 4090 also released for >$700 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  23. ThatDarnRosco

    GTX1080TI gotta be one of the best cards ever made

  24. With the 690 being $1000 I was already feeling fucked.

  25. Hmm just let me look at the MSRPs at launch for a second.

    * GTX 1080 $599
    * RTX 2080 $699
    * RTX 3080 $699
    * RTX 4080 $1199

    Obviously, if you remember the RTX 30-series launch you already know that there was no way in hell to get one at that price unless you were one of the lucky few around launch time that actually found one in stock. For the rest of us, Covid happened and prices skyrocketed to 2x or more of MSRP. And they never really came back down. Result? Look at that RTX 4080 MSRP again.

  26. My only complete is the x080 cards going for 1000 or more USD right now and the 4090 still 2000USD to 3000USD even though it will seen have a 5090 that might or might not be better than it for the same price.

  27. Impossible_Farm_979

    The 4080 super is $1000 so we getting one step down at the same price point. Still not favorable

  28. ilikewc3

    K. I bought multiple 1080s in the 500-550 range though so…how much are 5080s gonna go for?

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