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For years now the prices on this year’s latest cards are so high that I don’t know who buys them. I can afford to spend $1000 but I never would when I can probably get 85% of the performance for $250.
Out of curiosity, what GPU is getting 85% of a 5080's performance at $250? Genuine question.
That was genuinely pulled out of my ass. Not a benchmark comparison. It's just my perception that cards only get incrementally better each year, but "this year's card" is always proportionally much more expensive for what you get. Few games actually demand the very latest and greatest, so I don't know why people would ever pay the premium for the latest and greatest.
And the same applies to smartphones since a while ago.