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New Nvidia GPU's got announced, and it's absolutely over for poors :marseyitsover:

https://old.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/xjbobv/geforce_rtx_4090_revealed_releasing_in_october

								

								

500 or so comments in an hour so far. $1200 for the 4080, I think 1449€ in Europe. Cheaper 4080, which was planned to be released as 4070Ti but got renamed a month ago, for $899 and over €1k in Evropa. Another thread here https://old.reddit.com/r/buildapcsales/comments/xjbxye/meta_nvidia_geforce_rtx_4090_24gb_gddr6x_to/

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32912953

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The diminishing returns point on the price/performance curve for video cards, has always been around 75-80% if memory serves.

What I mean by that is that you pay far more for the last 20% of total performance, than you will for the first 80%, which means that it's economically more intelligent to buy the second or third tier graphics card in any given generation, rather than the absolute top one. The only reason why I would get the card with the last 20%, is if I wanted something which I didn't have to upgrade for ideally five years; but if you know you're going to replace the card in 18 months, then getting it is an obscene waste of money.

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While all you say is true I assume you didn't actually look at pricing this time, they're shifting the cards a few steps down from the top into higher price brackets.

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I deliberately stay around two generations behind for various different reasons. Price is only one of them.

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