And here you are wrong my friend. Nvidia DELIBERATELY price gauged gimmick 20xx series, we all know how that end, and for once youtubers were right saying not to purchase them.
They are charging £700 (hypothetically as they are charging way more) for a xx80
NON TI in a price segment that for the past several years was reserved to Ti card, for people not into economics...you do not pay "more each time is faster" else you'd pay a TV £30k a CPU £49k or £300 a month for your internet compared to 56k modem....and so on...that's not how prices are set in markets nor inflation.
The 3080 with only 10gb Vram should have costed no more than £600 leaving a 3080ti around £800/£850 REAL PRICES, that would have been a reasonable increase over the 1080ti due of extra cost of memory from GDDR5 to GDDR6, taking into account a scam tentative (2080ti) as baseline does not make any sense at all. These cards are overpriced, the 3070 is totally useless to start with.
People will start moaning in 6/8 months when new console ports will be on PC running like rubbish blaming the gods but themselves....
$11.69 per gb was the price of DDR6 in 2019... however let's assume the 6x is 35% more expensive, speculation as there is no real data on this and is an Nvidia stuff so would not believe it anyway, price is still outrageous as they want to pass 100% of their extra payment to consumer...sure...that's why most businesses cannot do that, it would be nice I guess but you cannot.
Also no one told them to use GDDR6X on all models if that meant offering a mere 10gb, AMD in this case has been smarter.
I do not buy the reasoning behind this, in fact it makes the 3080 short lived for gaming (as again majority do not buy each generation especially in a period where people would look at consoles seen prices here) and even for us doing other stuff like 3D...10gb Vram saturate pretty quickly and I can see that on my 1080ti.
"Exceptional demand" sure... like AMD said for their CPU and then you go on scan uk and see they sent less than 1000 in a month.....they don't have any because they aren't making any.