A report from MyDrivers says Nvidia plans to adjust the GeForce RTX 4080's MSRP in mid-December. Nvidia wants to make the graphics card a more attractive buy right around when the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX is due to hit shelves. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-GeForce-RTX-4080-could-get-a-much-needed-price-cut-soon.672822.0.html
Just like crooks, manufacturers will have to drop at least 25% the price of a GTX3060 with 8GB of memory with a 128-bit bus, instead of 192-bit with 12GB.