Quote from: RobertJasiek on January 01, 2023, 16:47:08The 4080 has nice hardware (except for the power adapter), which I have not bought due to the excessive prices. The 4070TI has nice hardware (except for the power adapter), which very probably I do not buy due to the excessive prices. Lower models will have nice hardware, albeit mostly too slow for me, and I will not buy any due to the presumably excessive prices. The 4090 I do not buy due to missing availability at MSRPs, the power adapter, too high TDP and its consequences. Nvidia's brillancy (speak: greed) has prevented my purchase of RTX 2000, then RTX 3000, now RTX 4000 and might prevent my purchase of any future Nvidia desktop GPU. Greed works during mining booms but otherwise kills markets.
That's the name of the game for a while now. Trying to milk consumers for every last dime. They purposely release few cards and or at high MSRP and then the scalpers have a field day for months on end. All while raising your electric bill with their high tdps. I thought the future of tech was efficiency, 'green' power sustainability? As with laptop batteries, it seems they have come to a halt concerning these 'improvements'