To get the best bang for your buck, it’s time to stop buying Nvidia’s RTX 30-series and look for other options.
The arrival of the RTX 40-series has cast a new light on the predecessor, and it's now mainly overpriced cards or unavailable, so don't waste your money.
Nvidia's RTX 40-series is now almost entirely under or at MSRP making it a financially sense choice, given the 30-series have risen in price again.
The then-overpriced RTX 3080 Ti came back down to a more reasonable level, but that still doesn’t make it worth the money in the current GPU climate.
AMD still has a bunch of solid cards in the RDNA 2 lineup, and many of them are dirt cheap at this point.
For Nvidia, your best bet is to buy current-gen GPUs.
Apart from buying new graphics cards, you can always look for renewed or used options.
We’re on the cusp of the RTX 50-series, and Ampere cards are soon becoming not just last-gen, but last-last-gen.
It’s time to bid farewell to a generation that was solid, but many of us never got to try it out for ourselves.
While it’s sad to see these cards slowly get replaced, it sure is a relief to see the GPU market overflowing with options.