Do we know if the high end cards that are supposedly selling out, do we know if that is due to low supply?
That would be market manipulation, rather than them doubling as companies in size due to massive profits.
The scary part is that the 2024 generation, next generation, will be even faster and not by a little, and fear is accordingly priced even higher.
So rather than being replacements, with the new generation of high end cards, they are basically adding a new category of cards - the super expensive highest level of cards, a category that did not use to exist before. 4K Cards.
I was away for a long time from computer builds, and still am away, but I've just begun to look at comparison reviews and things come down to performance on highest resolution OLED TV settings.
Not even the most expensive cards can do highest settings today. Even AMD 7900 XTX can't really do 4K. First card that can be looked at for that, is the nVidia 4090,
and it is a two thousand dollar card today (!).
I have started to learn about models and only the AMD 6800XT makes sense, it could be gotten for around $500 nowadays when caught on super sale. But it is a 1440P card, not for OLEDs. Anything higher does not make sense. None whatsoever. Price-wise or performance wise.
It was 20 years ago when this happened:
We could overclock these to make computers finally both affordable and usable. Computers were s-l-o-w before that. They finally became usable twenty years ago.
That has not happened yet for video cards and 4K OLED TV resolution.
So for me it is just not time to buy yet. I am sitting 2023 out.
2024 Cards will be the first to really do 4K OLED properly.
But at what cost...