afaik these prices are a lot less gougey than you'd think. Apparently these cost a ton to make because they're enormous monolithic dies on a node with poor yields.
And, because nvidia did a classic capitalist crisis of overproduction and made way to many 3000 series cards which have saturated the sub 900$ market (you can get a 3070 for around 400$ is awesome), they can't make "midrange" 4000 card because they would be out competed by their own 3000 series products which are being sold at a loss currently.
so, are they ridiculous? Yes, but I'd bet that nvidia inst even making that much on them regardless
afaik these prices are a lot less gougey than you'd think. Apparently these cost a ton to make because they're enormous monolithic dies on a node with poor yields.
And, because nvidia did a classic capitalist crisis of overproduction and made way to many 3000 series cards which have saturated the sub 900$ market (you can get a 3070 for around 400$ is awesome), they can't make "midrange" 4000 card because they would be out competed by their own 3000 series products which are being sold at a loss currently.
so, are they ridiculous? Yes, but I'd bet that nvidia inst even making that much on them regardless
What? Where?
I saw the 3070 Ti on sale for $450 a couple of weeks ago. (Best Buy)
I should have clarified second hand, but hardware swap and ebay seem to have quite a few cards going for 400 or less