People have been saying at least 2 of those things for many decades now, so far it hasn’t happened. What’s 2 more… or 4 or 6 more (you left some obvious ones out)?

Best to put those worries aside, bc if one doesn’t, why do anything?

Next gen 5090 is ready but delay due to new structures on 3nm TSMC

Got a cite for this? I haven’t heard someone claim this.

Maybe the limit of technology has come. Media talks 2nm maybe over 2030.

No, I really doubt we are close to the limit. 3d in various forms is the way things are going at that level, and that’s only one way to approach the various problems that I’m not educated enough to have a reasonable opinion on. Besides, it seems to me like every time some prognosticator says that we’ve reached a technological limit when it comes to computing, they’ve been wrong… when one approach plateaus, we find another that doesn’t.

Media talks 2nm maybe over 2030.

I don’t think we can make any reasonable predictions about how nodes will progress (or not) that far out.

It all depends on how aggressive NVidia chooses to be. It could be quite a bit better price-performance than 5%… it almost has to be, else what’s the point of the refresh in the first place?

We might all be pleasantly surprised. If NVidia thought the pricing on the existing 4080, 4070 Ti, and 4070 GPUs was fine, they wouldn’t bother bringing out a refresh. They do this instead of just lowering prices, because they don’t want to create a precedent in buyer’s minds that if they just wait on buying existing cards, prices will come down. Yes, I know, it’s very transparent to us, but not to most consumers. Plus, a refresh creates some marketing buzz.

Now, how much prices (for certain performance tiers) will go down is the big question. How aggressive does NVidia want to be? We’ll see in a month and a half!

I bought a 4080 at about the same as you bought your card. How I look at it is: I (and you) got a worse deal than if we waited 5 months, but at the same time, we both got the use of a better GPU compared to what we used before, for all that time, and that’s worth something.

Me, no regrets, not really.