Granted the 2080 Ti is $500 more than the 1080 Ti on release but no one seems to know what the markup is on the 2080 Ti or how much Nvidia is selling the GPUs for to the card manufacturers. The 2080 Ti GPU is huge at 754 mm² with 18.6 billion transistors compared to the 1080 Ti GPU at 471 mm² with 11.8 billion transistors. It must surely be more expensive to manufacture. The GDDR6 VRAM is more expensive than the GDDR5X on the 1080 Ti as well.
I believe Nvidia is taking advantage of having no competition at the 2080 Ti level but I wish someone with insider info would step up and tell us by how much. Right now we have no frame of reference because there isn't anything else like the 2080 Ti to compare it with.
1. Of course no one knows but look at the price drops we have seen already on the 2060, 2070, 2080 are down $100s
2. The price of their top card, adjusted for inflation has been around $700 since year 2000
3. Not long ago, the 1080 was running as high as $950 ... now many at $700. Is there an $800 difference between the 2 ? And lets
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And while yes it has more and better everything, i remember paying $1k for a 1 GB HD ... and my desktop workstations in the early 1990s were $6k ... now they $2k or under.
Are they taking advantage of the lack of competition ? Of course, welcome to capitalism

.... companies and directors are legally required to maximize profits .... without breaking any laws of course. Failure to do so has the board members sitting down with headhunters to find new jobs. I have a hard time calling the 2080 anything but a hi-end card .... If we look at the radeon VII as AMDs "hi-end", then by comparison everything from the 2070 on up must be hi end.
2080 => 2080 Ti = 21.6% increase in performance ... for 68.8% increase in price .... 27.5% increase in system price (ROI = 0.785)
2070 => 2080 = 19.8% increase in performance ... for 45.5% increase in price .... 14.3% increase in system price (ROI = 1.385)
2060 => 2070 = 16.7% increase in performance ... for 41.0% increase in price .... 10.0% increase in system price (ROI = 1.670)
1660 Ti => 2060 = 17.0% increase in performance ... for 26.2 % increase in price .... 5.4% increase in system price (ROI = 3.148)
1660 => 1660 Ti = 13.0% increase in performance ... for 20.2 % increase in price .... 3.6% increase in system price (ROI = 3.611)
The above assumes a $1200 build cost exclusive of GFX card .... now of course if your spending $1500 on a GFX card, your not choosing a lower end CPU, prolly a 9900k. So it is heavily skewed and conservative. At the top if the list, those system prices will likely be significantly higher. In addition, the above the law of diminishing returns. The higher you go, the more it costs for the same incremental performance increases. So it's rather easy to justify the extra $52 for a 1660 Ti oiver a 1660. Easy again to go the $81 to the 2060 ... each step ya take will cost you much more money however. That last jump has a negative ROI. At some point, and assuming tariffs on PC parts end, I think we will see the 2080 < $700 (say $659 ish) and the 2070 < $500, say $459 ish. The Ti will hold its premium a bit longer but by fall, I'm thinking $850 - $899
The stock market is a poor yardstick for anything as in the tech sector it's so subject to manipulation bu pump and dumpers, pumping the stock and then selling their shares short. Then its all doom and gloom, again with no real evidence, where the follow up and buy cheap.... only t repeat the cycle a few months later. The realty remains nVidia has increased their market share significantly (1%)in the last month while AMD has dropped 0.6% and Intel has dropped 0.5% and that can not be explained away ... by no means evidence of a long term trend, but certainly indicative of the market seeing current pricing levels as acceptable.