Some of us aren't on 4090s though. I ended up not playing mh wilds yet because it rarely keeps 60fps on a 3080 during combat. Never mind the texture issues because of low vram.Whilst I agree with you, you're not wrong. But playing devils advocate, there is another side to the coin... Consumers
With the image quality of DLSS 4, do people really need to upgrade to the 5090..? I went from 4090 - 5090 and I've noticed pretty much zero difference.
It's literally the difference of running DLSS on quality instead of balanced
A lot of the scrabble for the 5090 is people simply wanting the top card and this is something that is becoming less important with the likes of DLSS. It also used to be rare. The top '90' card or 'Titan' was a niche, reserved for the very few people who were willing to pay the premium. The 5080 is where the top mainstream card used to sit and even though the launch has been bad for the 5080 too, there's been a steady flow of them. It's weird because the less the 90 series card is needed, the more demand there is for it.
And as for scalping... If people refused to pay those prices, the prices would drop.
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