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NVidia 3xxx series is flooding the shelves. NVidia wants this product to sell out before they move on.

It doesn't make much sense for NVidia to increase production of 4xxx series when there's so much 3xxx series sitting around in warehouse inventory.

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Does a 4xxx card make sense for any pedestrian gamer? Clocking in at >$1200, it is a hard swallow to say that the extra FPS is worth it. Unless the price comes down massively, the high sticker price (plus insane power draw), really leave me wondering who is purchasing these things for anything but machine learning.

They're not worth it at all. I have a 3080 for 4k/60fps gaming without issues and I got it for $500 used. If a game struggles to hold a consistent framerate it's usually an issue with the game or certain settings, tweaking settings is free so throwing hardware at it doesn't make sense.

Unless you're willing to spend $1000+ the real world performance differences aren't even that large: https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

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