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It does for me, I was happy to spend the 1080ti price each generation for a new GPU - and even though the 2080ti is massively overpriced - I got half the cost back from selling the 1080ti, so in the end I never broke the bank with the 2080ti purchase, it was within my GPU budget.
You got back 500-600$ from selling the 1080ti and spent $1100-1200 on the 2080ti. This is the reality. By your narrative, it's almost as if you've got a bargain or something on your purchase. You didn't. You spent the full amount on a hyperinflated card. If that makes you happy and you can afford it, then it's all good.
I just picked up on your subconscious justification for the 2080ti and it's important that people understand opportunity cost.
I just picked up on your subconscious dislike for the 2080ti and it's important that people understand this.
You keep on about the cost of these cards and yes we all know this already, you have already made your views clear and perhaps it is now time to let people enjoy their cards.
For the record the MSI 5700 XT is a really nice card and looks very much like an RTX Titan in styling.
I don't dislike the 2080ti--it's a great card. I dislike people for enabling Nvidia to get away with pernicious pricefixing. Big navi can't arrive soon enough to dismantle this scam.
NVidia are asking a fair price for what you are getting with the Turing cards as they use huge chunks of silicon which will have quite poor yields.
The problem with Turing is lots of people don't want or need Ray Tracing and the other new features.
Turing pricing is not a scam, it is the result of NVidia trying to produce a product that really should only have seen the light of day on 7nm or better.
I don't dislike the 2080ti--it's a great card. I dislike people for enabling Nvidia to get away with pernicious pricefixing. Big navi can't arrive soon enough to dismantle this scam.
Not price-fixing. Wouldnt that mean all/other parties in that market segment collude to fix the price?
You got back 500-600$ from selling the 1080ti and spent $1100-1200 on the 2080ti. This is the reality. By your narrative, it's almost as if you've got a bargain or something on your purchase. You didn't. You spent the full amount on a hyperinflated card. If that makes you happy and you can afford it, then it's all good.
I just picked up on your subconscious justification for the 2080ti and it's important that people understand opportunity cost.
Fair enough, as I said though - I'm happy to drop $700usd on a new GPU each generation and that to me is all that matters.
I think the point here, is that prices won't stay at $700 each generation. We've already seen an astronomic rise, just in the last two years alone!
This is true but my main point here is that he has gone from paying 700$ each generation to 1200$ without seemingly realizing it.