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That irked me too. "_Bleeding edge" consumer GPUs are ...", sure, but you wait 6 months and you have it at a fraction of the cost. It's like saying "cars are a

• imiric 1y ago
  > That irked me too. "_Bleeding edge" consumer GPUs are ...", sure, but you wait 6 months and you have it at a fraction of the cost. That's demonstrably false. The RTX 4090 released in 2022 with an MSRP of $1,600. Today you'd be hard pressed to find one below $3K that isn't a scam. The reality is that NVIDIA is taking advantage of their market dominance to increase their markup with every generation of products[1], even when accounting for inflation and price-to-performance. The 50 series is even more egregious, since it delivers a marginal performance increase, yet the marketing relies heavily on frame generation. The trickling supply and scalpers are doing the rest. AMD and Intel have a more reasonable pricing strategy, but they don't compete at the higher end. [1]: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidias-pricing-strategy-is-why-we-need-amd-and-intel/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidias-pricing-stra...