Nvidia won, we all lost

This article goes much deeper than I expected, and is a nice recap of the last few years of "green" gpu drama.

Liars or not, the performance has not been there for me in any of my usecases, from personal to professional.

A system from 2017/2018 with an 8700K and an 8GB 2080 performs so closely to the top end, expensive systems today that it makes almost no sense to upgrade at MSRP+markup unless your system is older than this.

Unless you need specific features only on more recent cards, there are very few use cases I can think of needing more than a 30 series card right now.

I mean, most people probably won't directly upgrade. Their old card will die, or eventually nvidia will stop making drivers for it. Unless you're looking around for used cards, the price difference between something low end like a 3060 isn't that much less in price for the length of support you're going to get.

Unless nvidia's money printing machine breaks soon, expect the same to continue for the next 3+ years. Crappy expensive cards with a premium on memory with almost no actual video rendering performance increase.