Caporegime
Even that starts at £750, plus, its what Nvidia want you to do.....
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OcUK RTX4080 16GB review thread
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Even that starts at £750, plus, its what Nvidia want you to do.....
It was meant to be tongue in cheek, but seemingly the humour has been lost on you.
The 25% came from the very graph above
Soldato
What a depressing launch.
As could the thread with that post.
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Am I the only person who thinks the 3080, 2080, 1080, 980 etc were also expensive?
xx80 = expensive and it always has been in my opinion.
xx80 = expensive and it always has been in my opinion.
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Soldato
Not £1250+ expensive.
Soldato
£600 after selling on the games is a lot more palatable to most regular folk than paying a grand for a gaming gpu.
The xx80 launch used to be the crowd pleaser on these forums.
Pretty much doubled the price this is coming from someone that bought the 980, 2080 and 3080
Soldato
My rough mental math says 4090 with ~16000 shaders @ $1600 should mean the 4080 has ~12000 shaders @ $1200 but it's only got ~9000 shaders AND 8 GB less RAM so not a great proposition.
Not when it's costing 2x over the last xx80 launch. The 3080FE will be seen as a bargain now.
Soldato
It's a shame because by all accounts it's a decent card.
NVIDIA also have to remember that this is a market where there are a lot of bragging rights associated with a GPU and the 4080 is rapidly heading towards the fools choice. Who wants to spend £1200+ on a card and then get a clown award on Steam? The 4080 is a badge of shame! And one thing I have noticed about the GPU market is that once a card gets a black mark against it, that's it, it's dead for the duration.
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They were "expensive" as in £600+ is not cheap, but they weren't £1200+
Nvidia have tried to ram the xx80 in to effectively the same price bracket as the xx90 cards, and that isn't going to wash for the vast majority of people
Soldato
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Hopefully people will start to also realise the card you bought 3 years ago is still good enough to play games. Its been like that for years you only really needed to upgrade to play 1 or 2 AAA titles even then you could just dial down the settings. Its what GPU settings are for.
This time round its only to play 4k at decent frame rates and the 4k owners when you consider the whole picture are a tiny percentage still but if they can spend £800 on a 144mhz 4k Monitor they can afford £1500+ prices.
Hopefully people will start to also realise the card you bought 3 years ago is still good enough to play games. Its been like that for years you only really needed to upgrade to play 1 or 2 AAA titles even then you could just dial down the settings. Its what GPU settings are for.
This time round its only to play 4k at decent frame rates and the 4k owners when you consider the whole picture are a tiny percentage still but if they can spend £800 on a 144mhz 4k Monitor they can afford £1500+ prices.
Wait until something like Atomic Heart is out and people then "have" to upgrade at any price. PCMR is just too full of weak willed people.
Soldato
Proves my point too thats 1 game.
Caporegime
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This gen must be giving you a legit heart-attack then dude
atleast it actually launched unlike AMD paper launch
