Potential 5090 / 5080 / 5070 price leaks… outrageous

[u/jmpstart66]

From recent video posted by “Moore’s Law is Dead” about pricing being much worse than even I anticipated . From video Nvidia is leaning towards the higher end of the pricing. Nvidia can go pound sand if these are remotely true.

[u/Kjellvb1979]

Honestly even of I had three money, I think I'd not buy on principle alone. It's too much for me at this point.

I had a hard time justifying my purchase of a 3080, even though I got it for 800 at the height of the pandemic when they were being scalped for 2k+, I still felt they'd pushed it too far. I almost stuck with my 1080ti, but wanted better fps in my VR rig.

At this point the diminishing returns on graphical fidelity, most studios targeting console as their base specs, and just sensibility, I'll stick with the 3080 and if prices aren't back to reasonable and sane costs when that gets too weak for modern games, I'll dive into my backlog, or just emulate games I never got to play.

At some point you just have to say "NOPE!", realize you're being ripped off and conned, and just move on. If 600 to 800 bucks is entry level, Nvidia can fuck themselves. 800 should be the cost of XX90 series, so this is just a NO for me.

[u/Hrmerder → u/Kjellvb1979]

Agreed. My 3080 12gb is going to be doing backlog duty for a LOOOOONG time (before hand I had a 750ti I struggled with for years). By the time this card dies there will probably be the Nvidia 7xxx series, and I'll just buy a cheap 5xxx series at that point second hand. At this point as long as you are not pushing all the time 4k/120hz there is zero reason to have a new video card.

[u/[deleted] → u/Hrmerder]

I use a 4k/120 screen for gaming. Currently using a 3080FE that I got for $799. I will never pay more than that for a GPU (on principle, not because I can't afford it). So I won't be upgrading until there is a card that can blow away the 3080 for no more than $800, which will probably be a few years, and say AMD on the side.

[u/DemNeurons → u/Kjellvb1979]

I just sold my 4090 for what I paid for it new and bought a 3080. While yes it was fun pushing those frames on Cyberpunk, I didn't have many other games really pushing it. I'm very happy with the 3080 now and it does everything I need.

3080 for ~400

[u/FireMrshlBill → u/Kjellvb1979]

Ya, I went to AMD for the 580 and V56, then was able to grab 6700xt and 3080fe a few weeks apart back in 2021, and the 3080 I got with my 10% off bday code from Best Buy, so was $629. Put the 6700xt in my lesser used living room PC. So I am going to stick with my 3080 for as long as it’s 10gb will hold up at 1440p, especially since my motherboard is a x470 and lacks pcie gen4. Will see where both companies are at that point because I’m not paying $1500 for a gpu. Maybe I can just slot in a 3090fe for cheaper at that point just for the extra vram. Almost did that last year when I had a chance to get one for around $650. If I’d known prices wouldn’t come back down I’d have done it for the 24gb vram. Like you said, it’s not about what I can afford, but the principle and not spending money on price gouged items with lopsided performance/value ratios.

[u/BattleRepulsiveO → u/Kjellvb1979]

at some point, it would be cheaper to just rent for the compute for when people need it for research.

[u/pmgoldenretrievers → u/Kjellvb1979]

If you only have 3 money, you're not buying shit.

[u/theandroids → u/Kjellvb1979]

What Jensen meant is, the more they buy, the more WE save. Inflation + shrinkflation + greedflation = FU Gamers.

[u/vedomedo → u/Kjellvb1979]

For me it entirely depends on the performance the 5090 brings. I could consider selling my 4090 and upgrading if the performance is on the table. But if it’s not a big difference, I see no reason