GALAX clears out its RTX 3080 stock for US$699 oblivious of the fact that a new RTX 4070 Ti can be had for around US$850

[Redaktion]

GALAX has been promoting a clearance sale of its remaining GeForce RTX 3080 (10 GB) graphics cards. The company is offering the boards, which have a "1-click" overclocking feature, at a price of US$699.99. However, it is possible to pick up various models of the much better GeForce RTX 4070 Ti for around US$150 more.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/GALAX-clears-out-its-RTX-3080-stock-for-US-699-oblivious-of-the-fact-that-a-new-RTX-4070-Ti-can-be-had-for-around-US-850.696056.0.html

[Gavote]

True, but the 3080 doesn't require buying a new PSU to use.

[Man]

What a useless article. Of course theyre gonna ask for a price, and if you dont want to pay it dont.

[Maths are hard apparently]

4070ti vs 3080 is a 20-something percent increase in performance, and the 850 bucks are a 21% increase over the 700 GALAX is asking. Is maths hard enough to warrant a braindead article like this one?
Or is your consumerism crazy enough to think everybody needs the bigger stick?

[Day]

Not to mention that the 6800xt has been on and off again for sale around $520 since November.

[Jay Hovah]

There's no problem with that price at all...

[TechnoSport]

True, but the 3080 doesn't require buying a new PSU to use.

If you don't need a new PSU for the 3080, then you don't need a new PSU for the 4070ti. They said in the article the 4070ti uses less power...

[JZ]

The "much better" 4070ti???? I wouldn't call an average 5 fps in games "much better". I would call that $150 more a RIPOFF.

[Joni]

What enthusiasts know about the 4070s would make owning one embarrassing. Giving it a 4000s name is a famously questionable sales trick. Unless the price is drastically slashed, putting a 4070 in your PC would just about end all bragging rights.

[TheUser]

Userbenchmark states 3.5 dollars per point on performance for RTX 4070 ti, while the RTX 3080 is just a hair more expensive at 3.5 dollars per performance point.

They're literally the same. 0.2 dollars different? That is extremely reasonable. Whoever wrote this article doesn't know math. Less than a quarter per point of performance less of a good deal, who gives a s***?? don't waste my time

[RobertJasiek]

Userbenchmark states 3.5 dollars per point on performance for RTX 4070 ti, while the RTX 3080 is just a hair more expensive at 3.5 dollars per performance point.

They're literally the same. 0.2 dollars different? That is extremely reasonable.

By your logic of constant price / performance aka Jensen's declaration of the end of Moore's Law aka stagnation of computer progress,
- a computer in 1945 might have cost $10^6,
- a computer in 2023 is (wild guess) 10^6 times as fast so we should pay $10^12.

By your logic,
- a GPU today might cost $10^3,
- a GPU in 25 years will be roughly 10^2 times as fast so we should pay, in terms of current money value, $10^5.

[Broski]

This article is stupid. You can pay more money to get a better graphics card?! No way!! It would make sense if the 4070ti was only like $50 more but $150 price difference isn't just something you can be like I'll pay a little extra for the faster card. It's $150 whole a** dollars

[Middleseed]

The 4070 ti is a hair above the 3080 for far more. I'd take the 3080 over the 4070 ti any day of the week.

[Anony Mouse]

That's a steal considering I paid crazy pandemic prices for my 3080. Financed it from Newegg for a total cost of $1500. Naturally though I just stopped paying for it. Let the collection agency stew in it. But still the notion of a card sold for actual msrp or less is amazing. When I bought my 1080 years ago it cost me $600 which was basically what it cost at launch still and it was four years old or more. The 4070ti also is a bad card from everything I've seen. A shameful addition to the 4000 series lineup

[Rin sae]

Huh?  I think i will still buy the 30 series coz it is cheaper.