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However in your latter scenario, the net loss is only 2$ versus your original scenario where the net loss is 8$. (lose 8$ per card to the perfessional, versus gamer losing 2$ of performance)

So its socially optimum to continue to do what Nvidia is doing ;).

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If they sell at a >4:1 ratio in favor of the gamer version, it is still suboptimal.

If I had to guess, I would say their gamer card prices are by and large good approximations of the value they provide. No idea about professional card prices.

In the original scenario, there is no economic value loss, there is only monetary loss for nVidia. i.e: the surplass 8$ value are captured by the professionals rather than nVidia.

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