>People always talk about gpus being overpriced. This is true, but only if you're exclusively considering the lower-end or comparing with consoles (which, let'

>People always talk about gpus being overpriced. This is true, but only if you're exclusively considering the lower-end or comparing with consoles (which, let's be honest, most people are). The 3060/4060 are 400USD GPUs that promise the performance of a GTX1080Ti for half the MSRP (inflation-adjusted), but released 5-7 years later. The problem starts with just how absurdly good the 3080 and 4090 objectively are. Normally, you only get a 30% generational uplift with the newest-gen hardware (and the RTX5090 has indeed regressed to that 30% uplift mean, and that's partially why they had to add the extra memory); but the 3080 is a 100% uplift over the 2080Ti (and 3070) and the 4090 is another 100% uplift on top of the 3080 (and 4070). And you will recall that the 3080 was not twice the price of the 3070, and the 4090 was not twice the (inflation-adjusted) price of the 3080. Which is precisely the reason nVidia is taking its sweet time coming out with what the gaming market actually wants, which is a 3080 for 400USD. You can expect such a card to appear in 2029; we already know for certain the 5060Ti 8GB is just a 3070 (for the same non-inflation-adjusted MSRP, by the way), and following that pattern means the 6060 will be a 3070 for 400USD (and the 6060Ti a 3080 for 550), then the 7060 will finally match the 3080 at that price.