Amen.
Don't buy it.

Well, I'd rather put it in my 401K.  I'll buy another video card when I retire.

Why sign up for something that costs more than you are willing to pay? Saving your money is a good thing. You don’t need the video card.

Maybe buy used?

I was shocked when I set out to rebuild my PC. The 1080 GTX Strix I had was about $500 when I had bought it 3 or so years ago. And to add insult to injury, I think I had to go participate at the local Microcenter lottery about 15 times before I even got the chance to purchase a 3000 series card… The first time I was able to get in and was offered a 3090 for close to $2,200 after tax I simply walked away…Somehow eventually a $1400 3080Ti began to look like a steal…

what is stirring my pot is that the product life cycle cannot be an effective 3-6 months if they want $2k a pop.  for $2k, it needs to be minimum 12-18 months for a flagship card.  like others said, just forget it.

Graphics on the PC are always better with a high end card and my computer can do far more then a console. If I  bought a PS5 or Xbox Series X I would still have to buy a $500-600 computer for productivity so might as well put a 3070 in a PC and kill two birds with one stone. Only reason I justified a console was that I wanted a 4K blu-ray player and some games are exclusive to the console on the Sony side but that seems to be changing.

ty_ger07

dragomirc

TuKuuL
Well, I'd rather put it in my 401K.  I'll buy another video card when I retire.

Year to date return is minus 13%

And you don't think it will go back up? Buy low.

This is funny. One cannot help but consider a high-end GPU as an alternative asset class in the portfolio… YTD return on the 3090Ti is abysmal as well…

I am not sure why folks have shifted from the 3080 that the OP started off referencing, to randomly switching to the 3090 costs. Makes no sense to me.

The 3080 did start with an MSRP for the base line founders & “reference” PCB of $699 back in 2019, and has had a lifecycle of over 18 months, so I am not sure why short lifecycles have started encroaching on the conversation either. I am guessing it is a steering technique versus conversing with the actual topic?

Anyway, the 3080 for the FTW3 Ultra did start off with a lower MSRP, when the OP likely signed up, and then the MSRP went up over a year ago and hasn’t fully come back down. It went from ~$810 to ~$920 and currently has a $50 rebate bringing it back down to $870.

So, $60 difference from launch to now.

OP’s thread is about the cost of the card, which is nearly in line with what the card costed when it launched. After waiting so long, I can understand why someone would be frustrated, but since the price isn’t all that much different from launch, this would have been buyers remorse either way.

the_Scarlet_one
I am not sure why folks have shifted from the 3080 that the OP started off referencing, to randomly switching to the 3090 costs. Makes no sense to me.

The 3080 did start with an MSRP for the base line founders & “reference” PCB of $699 back in 2019, and has had a lifecycle of over 18 months, so I am not sure why short lifecycles have started encroaching on the conversation either. I am guessing it is a steering technique versus conversing with the actual topic?

Anyway, the 3080 for the FTW3 Ultra did start off with a lower MSRP, when the OP likely signed up, and then the MSRP went up over a year ago and hasn’t fully come back down. It went from ~$810 to ~$920 and currently has a $50 rebate bringing it back down to $870.

So, $60 difference from launch to now.

OP’s thread is about the cost of the card, which is nearly in line with what the card costed when it launched. After waiting so long, I can understand why someone would be frustrated, but since the price isn’t all that much different from launch, this would have been buyers remorse either way.

as I read it, this is a thread for gripes. I’m griping about the kingpin TI, or lack thereof.

Reread the reread

the_Scarlet_one

ObscureEmpyre

the_Scarlet_one
I am not sure why folks have shifted from the 3080 that the OP started off referencing, to randomly switching to the 3090 costs. Makes no sense to me.

Reread the title of the thread.

Reread the first post.

Just did and yep. It’s completely relevant to the thread title along with every other post here when it comes to the subject.

harley262
gaming has always been cheaper on consoles.

And also extremely inferior. You get what you pay for.

I was thinking of one thing that was pointed out about consoles being "cheaper" one thing we saw this generation is console games start to show up at a price of $69.99 for new titles. So far only title to come out at that price on PC was Final Fantasy VII remake on the epic game store with other games being normally $59.99 new on PC. The other great thing about PC is I can go to Steam, Epic games store or a dozen other sources for games but with a console it's Microsoft or Sony or trying to find a physical copy. It's far more limiting to try to find a sale on a console game then it is on PC. One other thing is very few PC games I own have ever became unplayable because of updates. I can load up a 30 year old PC game and play it but with consoles if I wanted to do that they would want me to buy a new copy of the game that works on the current generation consoles.
 

I can't disagree with the sentiment in this thread.  I remember buying my Strix 2080S a few years ago.  I looked at the 2080Ti and thought, "I'm never paying that much for a GPU".  So I bought the 2080S.  Fast forward to today, I now have two 30 series cards (3080ti FTW3 and Zotac 3090).  Silly money I spent on those. 
 
The 2nd card purchase was more driven by the shortage than anything.  I had the Zotac 3090 that I snagged in Nov. 2020, but was concerned it would die (or worse yet partially die) and I'd never get Zotac to RMA it.  So when I got a notify for the 3080Ti, I grabbed it.