IN THE PAST, both AMD and Nvidia have had halo products with extreme prices and only moderately higher performance than the penultimate GPUs. With the latest generation of hardware, that approach seems to have been kicked to the curb and we’re now looking at only minor cost savings for a potentially large performance deficit.
Nvidia blazed the trail with the RTX 4090 and 4080, with the latter shaving 25 percent from the asking