I didn't expect an announcement of the Supers this early in the year, nor did I expect them to be cheaper than the non-Super cards. I bought the 4080 recently with the thought that Nvidia's trend in the past 4 or 5 years has been to increase prices, so even if the Supers were announced this early in the year the performance increase would cost proportionally more money anyway.
Sucks for me, but overall I'm glad that Nvidia is getting prices under control to some extent.
> nor did I expect them to be cheaper than the non-Super cards.
to be blunt, that's because you bought into ayymd propaganda. it is so endemic that people don't even see it for what it is anymore, people are constantly bombarded with absurdly pro-AMD and absurdly anti-NVIDIA takes, it's just the sea in which we swim on social media.
you should take it as a learning experience and not constantly buy into the ayymd bandwagon of the week next time. because there will absolutely be a next time - probably people will move onto the next insane thing within a few weeks here.
Last year it was that the 4090 was going to be >900W... people talked themselves into thinking that a two-node shrink was going to result in zero efficiency gain. This ada gen is a dud, just wait for AMD, the 7900XTX is gonna blow the doors off!
And it's happened to RDNA3, Vega, Fury X, Zen2, etc, and against every single technology deployed via RTX or DLSS. The flip on framegen the day AMD released FSR3 was amazing, and instantly all the complaints about latency etc vanished within a single day, despite being significantly worse latency because of forced vsync/incompatibility with VRR, let alone the reflex-only baseline. "Possibly the best part of FSR now" etc.
it's like the runup to the iraq war or something, there were counter-voices, but why would you want to listen to them when everybody knows the truth already? Going against the grain constantly is tiresome and frames you as an iconoclast, and even if you're right people still think you're a troublemaker for having contradicted them earlier. The people who blocked you are not gonna unblock you just because you were right. It's like trying to be the voice of reason in a failing project, even if you save the project you're still a troublemaker. So eventually the dialogue just fades into an echo chamber. It is a fast road to what was eulogized as "epistemic closure" - aka "we bandwagoned too hard and drowned out all the opposing voices, and it turns out they were correct".
So here we are: green man bad, everyone knows it, and this exception really only proves the rule. Now if you'll excuse me I've got some very important posts to make about how you'll never be able to buy one for MSRP anyway, like it's still 2020 or something.
Sucks for me, but overall I'm glad that Nvidia is getting prices under control to some extent.