RTX 3090 was $1500 at launch, and was a 50% boost over the previous gen at best. RTX 4090 is $1700 an is asserted to be ~1.9x performance, when taken with salt

RTX 3090 was $1500 at launch, and was a 50% boost over the previous gen at best. RTX 4090 is $1700 an is asserted to be ~1.9x performance, when taken with salt grain. You can buy a 3090 for $999 today at Best Buy. That's not a bad price per frame. $1700 for the 4090, if 1.9x speed for raster, is not a bad price per frame either. Both are stupid. Anyone spending $2k for video games graphics cards is wasting money in a stupid way: they are big, hot, shipped from far away, and turn into toxic landfill garbage in a matter of years. They mark the worst form of destructive consumerism that late-stage capitalism has produced, on par with leasing a new vehicle every 2 years: both are bad as products that turn into needless waste and both consume energy and produce unnecessary heat. I am definitely going to buy a 4090 on October 12.