How are they supposed to milk every last penny they can from everyone they can to achieve them quarterly profits? Enshitification has caught up to Nvidia, too.
I finally moved my trusty 1080 to my eldest and got a good price on a runout 4080.
At this point it looks like I'll be holding onto it for.. many, many years
Well. I finally replaced my ryzen 2060 and old 3700x I got an rtx 4080 on a good deal and a 7800x3d. I see no reason to look at the 50xx series with the current prices. The performance is not enough to justify it unless money is a non issue for you.