Why does a XX60 card cost as much today that a XX80 costed a

>>56168603
It doesn't.

The 1060 is $249 and the 980 was $549

GTX 280 was $650
GTX 260 was $400

whats your point?

1GB GTX 460 released at $229 (768MB at $200) to much fanfare.

GTX 1060 is $249. 3GB 1060 is $200.

The prices of the highest end cards have increased. The mid range stuff hasn't budged.

Inflation is a thing my dude. Games should be costing more than 60$ and maybe microtransactions would not have picked up like they did.

>>56168653
I bought an 1GB Gigabyte SoC Gtx 460 for 30k, when the top card was 100k now an 1060 is 91k and an 1080 is 230k

>>56168679
Inflation is a thing, but not a 300% thing

>>56168685
no one gives a fuck about your meme currency

>>56168762
Ur mom does when i pay her for succ faggot

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>>56168640

The HD 4890 was $249 ($278 in 2016). It was on par with the GTX 285 (which retailed for $360 in 2009 - that's $400 today)

Somewhat related to OP, my point here is that GPU prices have gone up.
Back then you could the best GPU on the market for $249. Today, a GTX 1080 will set you back $600.

Only nerds play games on PC these days. Time was, you could convince everyone to effectively fund your gayming by telling them they needed a GPU to browse facebook. Now, integrated GPUs are good enough for everyone but people who fell for the 4k meme so the market is basically tiny.

>>56168798
Nice piece of disinformation and fallacies, upvoted.

>>56168776
>The HD 4890 was $249
Just a year later the HD 5870 came out for $380.

>>56168818
Are you in any way contradicting me?

>>56168776
>my point here is that GPU prices have gone up

>>56168776
8800 Ultra was $830

>>56168863
you're acting like it happened this year, prices have fluctuated for forever.

The HD 2900XT was a $400 GPU, then the HD 3870 introduced low priced high end cards with a $220 MSRP, then the HD 4870 at $250, but then the HD 5870 went back up to the $400 range.

My point is there has never been a consistent period where GPU pricing stayed the same.