News RTX 4080 Too Expensive? Gamers Say Otherwise, as Cards Sell Out Within an Hour

[Phaaze88]

Just like I said in other threads, others can't tell people how to spend their money. At the same time, those people the ones enabling the higher pricing. The profit margins are highest at the top.
The demographic is shifting, and there's nothing to be done about it, as those who choose to buy these cards have the power.
Some of y'all out there are just going to have to accept that the higher end models will not be within your reach anymore - for the most part.

The 4090 really truly is just a sli users replacement gpu and it performance matches the cost properly I feel.

It isn't a SLI replacement.
xx90 was Nvidia's mark on a dual chip gpu. GTX 490(never released), 590 and 690. It could also be SLI'ed.
The dual chip design didn't do so well though and was scrapped, making xx80Ti the top dawg.
In 2020, xx90 comes back, but it's not dual gpu(!).
Nvidia took advantage of it to shift their entire product stack and increase profits - a business strategy.

 

[CelicaGT]

Starting to look like an initial buy from scalpers, and then....very little. Reportedly these things are gathering dust at most major retailers with restocks coming in at some locations and putting inventories above initial levels. It could be the best card ever but the price is way too fricking high. While the 4090 is insanely expensive it actually presents as kind of a value when put up against the previous gen, the 4080 does not. I expect a drop to 1000USD once RDNA3 hits the shelves next month.

 

[Tanquen]

It's good to be the "Nvidia". Lie about your difficulties producing volume. Cancel wafer orders, make sure your cards are always in short supply and jack up the price. Rinse and repeat every few years. On top of the line card should be five or $600 with a simple cooler. Unfortunately, there's too many people out there willing to pay ungodly amounts just to have a card that's 10% faster or 5% faster.

Like all the overclocked cards that are $200 or $300 more and the overclock does nothing or almost nothing for frame rates. But what are you going to do by the base model card for the base retail price oopsie, we don't have any of those.

Hey Bitcoin mining and scalpers are destroying the PC gaming market. What should we do.... Umm...
We're still selling all of our cards, right? Well then, we do nothing, those idiots that keep paying $1,000s cash for $50 silicon , that's their problem.