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RTX 4090: no price drop until when?

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I like the 4090 jump in performance.
Totally different level of anything else. And that's why there won't be any price drop.

There's not even competition to a hypothetical 4080Ti....

It's a shame the 7900XTX seems to be underperforming if you go by AMD launch event where they showed it like 50-70% faster than the 6950XT vs around 30% when it launched. Even if they were like in the 40-50% range it would be clearly better than the 4080 for most people.
 
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I've kinda just purchased whatever looked interesting to me.

My main systems from the last 8 years. Unfortunately any benchmarks prior to that I lost when a Gigabyte motherboard housing a 4790K died and took all my drives with it. GPU/CPU survived though but sold them off when I grabbed my 5820K based system.

As hard as I've personally been on the 4070ti/4080 people should just get what they can afford as long as it offers a meaningful upgrade..... Even a 1080ti is what like 80-90% slower than a 4070ti at this point. Flagships are cool and all but life is more important than worrying about stuff we can't afford. Even me doing the 4090 upgrade priced me out of updating the rest of my system something in the past I would have normally done.

Yeah my biggest problem with Ada is that I need to buy the 4090 to have any meaningful upgrade.

The 4080 is an upgrade in performance, but not enough to justify its cost, the 4070 Ti is a sidegrade at best - it's an outright tradeoff, I get similar frame rates/general performance, but at the cost of half my VRAM, my 3090 isn't one of those power-chugging triple 8-pin ones so not even that part would affect me much, yet to get this one I would need to sell my GPU and still put a couple thousand bucks (our currency of course) to complete it, at which point it just becomes entirely irrelevant to me.

I'm past FOMO but I am still extremely irked at NVIDIA's decision to withhold major features from Ampere only a single generation later, even as they haven't provided midrange Ada products to the desktop segment, only on laptops, which means they have the chips but are sitting on them as it's inconvenient to sell them right now. Even if the whole speculation of the cause being that Ampere's optical flow accelerator not being as fast, you are going to have an extremely hard time justifying to me that a GA102 processor is unable to do something a dinky AD107 can, and they have been shilling frame generation as the sole selling point of the 40 series from top to bottom - and relying on that entirely at the low-end.

I'd understand my laptop's 3050 not doing frame generation, but my 3090? Come on dude...

I like the 4090 jump in performance.
Totally different level of anything else. And that's why there won't be any price drop.

There's not even competition to a hypothetical 4080Ti....

I've experienced this 80 to 100% performance jump before, when I upgraded from the Radeon VII (great card, just not for gaming) to the 3090. It can be wild, but at the same time, games are still developed to support that level of hardware today, years later. That diminishes the value proposition a ton, even if you're pushing 4K - 3090 can do 4K 60 in most games, and 4K 120 could well be within its reach if it ever supported frame generation, that would greatly reduce the value of the 4090 to a lot of people in my shoes - yet we are the kind of people that upgrade anyway.

If the 4090 was $1000 USD, i'd have bought one instead of doing a complete overhaul on my PC.
 
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I am still miffed that AMD bought ATi.
 
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Why would they drop the price?
Maybe they'll be "generous" and obsolete it by launching a 4080 Ti at $1300
 
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All I can say is I'm rooting for AMD to come out with an a$$ kicking GPU!!!!

I wouldn't hold your breath. AMD's been saying for years that they'll eventually have a faster card than NVIDIA's flagship, and here we are over 10 years later now and that still hasn't happened. "Wait for Vega!" "Wait for Navi!" "Wait for Big Navi!" "Wait for RDNA 3!" Now it's, "wait for RDNA 4!"

Don't get me wrong, RDNA 2 was competitive and quite close, but only traded blows for the most part. The pricing is what dropped the ball. And AMD only started to actually discount the GPUs to proper prices at the tail end of the generation. No offense, but until AMD can rival NVIDIA in everything, including features, encoder support, driver stability, and performance, they have no right to price right under NVIDIA.
 
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