![]() The RTX 3080 Ti, with its 72% increase in price and 18% increase in core counts over the RTX 3080 was a warning of what we were in store for with this latest generation of cards. ![]() Obviously Nvidia, and to a lesser extent AMD, made way more money from all of the cards suddenly flying off the shelves, but a greedy eye on the further inflated prices at retail and from resellers has led to a long-term pricing hangover we're still dealing with. The spike in demand due to global, pandemic-related lockdowns, and the subsequent second coming of cryptocurrency mining, meant GPUs were hot property and resellers more than manufacturers made extra bank off that. Nvidia and AMD's latest generation of GPUs, on the other hand, has us wondering " Where the heck do GPU prices go from here?" When you've got the RTX 4080 leaping to $1,199 from the $699 MSRP of the previous generation's RTX 3080, the price of improving your setup so you can reach the frame rates you're after is getting silly. ![]() If only we had money to blow on graphics cards :( (Image credit: 2K Games)
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