Why Are Nvidia's GeForce RTX GPUs So Expensive?

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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.
 

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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....
 
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