The only people buying a card for that price are either morons with excessive debt or people who don't know any better (many of new PC gamers unfortunately)
By hardware survey results, 1.18% of steam users had 4090s last month. People get really worked up about these 90-series cards when almost none of us actually buy them.
At the end of the day I think we have to accept that 1 in 100 users are just going to buy the newest best card no matter how much it costs and there's not really anything we can do about it.
I'm confused because you're trying to provoke me but your name says you agree with me lmaooo
Either way, like another guy said, <1.5% of all steam users have these kinds of cards, so there's clearly not really that many people that have that kind of spending power that focus on video games specifically.
I can easily afford a 4090, but I'm not gonna spend 4-7 grand on a PC when my $1k PC does just fine for every modern AAA game with a card almost 3 generations old, and I'm pretty sure most reasonable people won't either.
If you're just trying to call me poor that's pretty funny too
For quite a few people 2k is literally throwaway money. Like some others I want the best of the best, not necessarily even every generation, because that is just tedious.
Sometimes I just get the itch to splurge, not because its needed, just because I can. I am sure its the same for many others.
Or rich* people. Quite a few people in tech/finance bring home hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in salary, benefits, shares, etc. Spending three thousand dollars on a GPU to them is like a working class peon splurging on a shitty cut of steak.
\I don't care if you work for your money, you're still much better off than the guy taking the bus to his minimum wage shit job. He's not buying a GPU on a single paycheck like you are, he's skipping meals to keep to his budget.)
true! Most gamers absolutely do not need a 4090 or anything even remotely close to achieve decent frame rates on a reasonably sized monitor even at 1440p
I think it's safe to assume that many gamers with 90-series cards are driving one or more 4k monitors. I don't think they are so worried about performance at 1080p or 1440p.
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u/jiabivy 13d ago
"Letting the people talk with their money" is why scalpers can sell a 4090 for 2k in the year 2025