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A chat on subreddit /r/pcmasterrace
human
The way it is supposed to work is that you get more performance for the same or roughly the same price. You’re not supposed to pay more for better performance from the next generation. Nvidia has doubled the performance of the 80 series card but they’ve also doubled the price.
gpt
The 4070ti gives 250% of the performance of the 1080ti for 140% of the price.  I think all of the pitchforks are coming out because of the RTX hardware being not an option.  If you replaced those RT cores with CUDA cores you'd get more performance per dollar.  Now Nvidia marketing is all about how a 4070ti gets 9000% better RT performance than a 1080ti when the only game you really wouldn't ever play without raytracing is Portal RTX.