Why Are Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs So Expensive?

[tbschimel]

Because Nvidia is over-hyped. It's like the new cell phones, people need the latest and greatest. No thanks. I'll happily keep my 980 Ti until it tuckers out.

 

[imno007]

It's like asking why an iPhone is so expensive. They charge so much because people will pay it.

 

[xrodney]

There is no freaking way GDDR6, additional fan, and 12nm process based chip is worth 500$ more.

How can you say that without knowing the performance increase per $?

All you're really saying is "That's allot of money to me". And that's all you can say until benchmarks come out and you can finally characterize the real value proposition of the new product.

No, what I am saying is that price/performance for 2080ti is somewhere like 3 generations backward and that increased cost for moving to 12nm and using GDDR6 does not warrant such huge price increase.

GDDR6 alone is +$30 in cost at worst case
As for 12nm process, yield should be decent and even if it's not that good, with 50% yield for GT102 we are talking about 30+ good dies per 300mm wafer for Quadros, but as 2080ti is even cut down it should be probably a lot higher yield due to disabling defective parts.
So we are talking about $100-150 in costs per die....