AMD and Nvidia I believe have stopped looking at market segments like this is the 60 class and this is the 80 class and, they have instead shifted to resolutions. This is your 1080p, your 1440p, your 2K, your 4K, ...
They are trying to argue well this card series covers all the current needs and features required to play at 1080p, this one your 1440p, and over here we have your 4K, and they are sort of right to do it that way maybe it's weird. As a consumer, enthusiast I sort of hate it, the prices on the new stuff are stupid, but the prices on the old stuff are getting better but they aren't there yet and I get that retailers are still marking things up because 1 they are moving and 2 they are using that markup to pay for the losses they are taking on some of the unsold stock that they purchased at the height of the GPU prices and won't take a bath on them. It's all just a clusterfuck and it makes me angry, though it is letting me go back and appreciate some of my much older stuff and realize it's still nice, busted out the Wii U for the first time in like 8 years and remembering the stuff was actually fun.
They are trying to argue well this card series covers all the current needs and features required to play at 1080p, this one your 1440p, and over here we have your 4K, and they are sort of right to do it that way maybe it's weird. As a consumer, enthusiast I sort of hate it, the prices on the new stuff are stupid, but the prices on the old stuff are getting better but they aren't there yet and I get that retailers are still marking things up because 1 they are moving and 2 they are using that markup to pay for the losses they are taking on some of the unsold stock that they purchased at the height of the GPU prices and won't take a bath on them. It's all just a clusterfuck and it makes me angry, though it is letting me go back and appreciate some of my much older stuff and realize it's still nice, busted out the Wii U for the first time in like 8 years and remembering the stuff was actually fun.