You know as well as the rest of us that the higher up the stack the performance per pound decreases... it's not a simple straight line. There's more silicon being used, probably lower yield too, there's more ram and the cooler and other hardware is suitable for a higher power usage etc... it all adds cost and it isn't a linear cost. It's also not just about gaming performance for some of us, there are things I could do with a 4090 that a 4070ti wouldn't be able to do due to the fact it has less memory, the software would literally go, sorry no can do not enough vram...
We shouldn't even be arguing that the 4070ti SHOULD be better value than the 4090 in a current line up, it's not in the same tier of cards for starters, still doesn't stop the 4070ti being overpriced relative to previous generations...
At the same time no one seems to be taking into account the potential life span of the 4090 versus the 4070ti, we've already got games which are pushing the limits of 10-12GB vram cards (arguably due to poor optimisation/conversion from console ports) so it's not unrealistic to potentially see 16GB vram being a 'recommended' spec within the next few years.
The 4090 is not as great as people think either, especially for people using them for work or creative apps. The problem that many seem to forget is the 4090 is an actual downgrade from a 3090/ti as I keep repeating there is no NVLINK and that means no dual card support for applications that require NVLINK or more vram than 24GB, with NVLINK I get 48GB and double the cuda cores pooled for my apps.
4090 sadly is not an upgrade path for me and people in my situation and only update is the Ampere A-series that have NVLINK and more VRAM than 24GB, even ADA A-series has only 48GB max sized card and no NVLINK..
Nvidia has made a real mess for many of us using them for pro work and they deliberately did that after seeing how the 3090s sold to pro users in NVLINK setups and why they tried to ban blower 3090s too because they don't want them used in servers or small setup workstations as they want you to buy A-series (Quadro) cards..
Lets hope NVLINK comes back to 50xx series but sadly I doubt it as only cards with it now are Pro gpus for the server side and even their workstation cards this generation have it removed and they are trying to sell the Ampere A-series to people that need NVLINK and more VRAM than 48GB.
4090 is nothing more than a 4080 really now
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and really what it should be sold as and the 4090ti if one comes out as the 4080ti.. but sadly that's not how it played out this generation and Nvidia is really damaging its product line to gamers and pro users, they want to change the whole product stack and rewrite their whole product catalogue and of course the consumer is the one losing out.