Nvidia's greed and monopoly

Recently I have seen a lot of hype surrounding the launch of the 50 series GPUs, especially the 5090 which has and still is advertised as having the same performance as the 4090 at one third of its cost at launch.

This is an attempt to replace the "beginner friendly" graphics cards such as the 1660 Super, and the 1080ti (widely known as the best performance/price GPU on the market even years later). Changing the norm for THE beginner GPU to a contender in the newest series allowing for easier access for new buyers and even more so to first time PC builders/buyers to expect more on the basis (bigger number, newer = better) is dangerous and harmful for the GPU market that is already oversaturated.

AMD has better budget cost/performance cards for budget and mid-ranged PCs with all the cards averaging slightly more VRAM available. It is only the High-end PCs where Nvidia's cards begin to dominate in raw power and better software, drivers and ray tracing. 

This gap in Nvidia's dominance over the higher end of the market, even with the noticeable low end winners mentioned below, is in my opinion trying to forcefully erase competition trough false hope and immoral advertising of their future products.

Artificial segmentation is to be expected in the 5090 to create a higher supply in the long run as they have done with the past series in order to sell more future models. You can also expect restricting clock speeds, disabling certain cores, capping VRAM and pretty much bottlenecking the cards.

DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), a software-based upscaling technique, will make the 5090 seem faster in benchmarks, but this won’t translate into true raw performance gains in all scenarios.

I want to end this rant by saying that i do not have anything against Nvidia and that i personally use Nvidia's graphics card due to personal preferences in the power, driver support and the softwares they provide. 

Some people may not be as fortunate as others and may fall victim to advertising of these companies. Spending huge amounts of money on Nvidia's cards for a somewhat average price/performance rate as some beginner AMD cards they could've gotten a lot cheaper, and considering a huge amount of PC users do not require mid-high end graphics cards Nvidia advertises the most i feel like its becoming a more apparent problem of greed.

Thanks for reading this rant.