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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
TBH the 30 series was utterly bananas. The 3060 is a freaking beast of a card (even if we ignore the ti) and the 3080 had such an insane performance per dollar value at 1440p/4k that was a unicorn product for the high end performance crowd. Most people called it years ago but Nvidia learned their lesson, they will never release a card that has 80-90% the performance of the flagship GPU at like 60% the price.
gpt
The 3000 series was good (I have several of the cards), but they still weren't cheap. Compared to the 2000 series, sure, but that was overpriced as hell.

I mean, it's like living in a world full of Nigel Tufnals. It doesn't matter that the numbering goes to 11. The top card is still the top card. They were $500 or less for ages.

The issue here is marketing and market placement. Even selling a graphics card for around the price of a console is insane, but now we're inching in on god damn used car prices. It's pure insanity.

Some of this is nVIDIA trying to mix business and gaming cards into the same product, but when the price/performance ratio is so overtly skewed at the top end, and the performance is so underwhelming, how are they even remotely thinking this is going to work?

It boggles the mind.

There is no sanity in this space anymore.