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The counter argument to this is Intel's B570 which goes for about $300 where I live (full out of pocket price).
That's not too bad at all. I haven't had a chance to try Intel's dGPUs (to evaluate their driver quality), but this does seem to be a compelling option.
Issue is, I need something more powerful. B570 is slower than my 4 years old RTX 3080... I'd pay up to 800€ for RTX 5070Ti, but not 1200. Waiting to see how RX 9070XT works out, but I bet it'll be around there with performance and price of 1200€ as well. Which is why all of it is stupid.
For higher end dGPUs, there will likely never be much price competition (I would love to be wrong).
I am probably going to stick with my 3080 until the 7000 series. It does what I need it to, with the only issue being 10 GB VRAM for running local LLMs, but that's not too much of a problem.
I've decided to hold on to my 3080 too. 4080 was stupid and 5080 is no different. Hopes are for 9070XT if it matches 5070Ti and isn't idiotically priced and actually obtainable, maybe. I don't mind Radeons, have had several of them in the past.