>>399762193
At the absolute best I see the 4080 and 4090 coming in at the MSRP of their last gen counterparts, that is to say, 700 and 1500 respectively. I think it's likely we'll see a slight increase though because of 'inflation' and if the GPUs are legitimately this insanely powerful, they can probably get away with it. No way the 4090 doesn't count at least several hundred dollars more than the 4080. If we go by current leaks and the 4080 comes in at around 15-16k Timespy Extreme, with the 4090 being around 19-20k, then that's around 20-25% difference. Even if you knock off a couple points cause synthetic benchmarks, there'll be a legit performance gap that's meaningful beyond just VRAM this gen. If Nvidia doesn't price the 4090 at at least 1.5x the 4080, and it'll likely be more, then there's no room for the eventual 4080 TI, remember the 4080 is the 103 die not the 102 like the 3000 series was, on price or performance. Nvidia's practically set themselves up for it because they can have a 256-bit 4080 with 16GB, a 320-bit 4080 TI with 20GB of VRAM, then the 4090 at 384-bit with 24GB of VRAM.
>>399762559
Ethereum going PoS will absolutely kneecap GPU mining and you're delusional if you think otherwise. Sure, some people will still mine, but a blow is being dealt that crypto won't recover from immediately.