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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
Not even the 3050 could be priced at $150. the 3060 cost  329 USD normally, while the 3050 $249. Its only 15% less powerful than the 3060 anyway.

Even if manufacturing the card costs $100 or so (for like the 3050) they still have to make profits. $150 would just not work.
gpt
To add to this - I think that Linus was even going over why the xx30 cards are actual dogshit and why they arent much cheaper - There is a fixed cost to making the cards.  The heatsinks, shrouds, PCBs, etc. all cost a fixed price and same with assembly.  There is a floor that they literally cannot sell under without losing money.  


You also have to factor into the card price - Cost of tech support, cost of repairs for RMA cards, costs of giving out new cards because of failures.  Even with something as large as a 50% margin on cost vs. sale, you still have a LOT of other overhead that comes along with products like this.  


I'm not here trying to say That the xx80/xx90 cards have not been extremely expensive and overpriced and running defense for Nvidia on them (which I hope nobody takes it that way), but I'm saying that a lot has changed in the space and price floors have moved up for the low end cards.