Do you people not understand I paid almost that much for a 1080 ti? that was 6 years ago, before supply chain issues, before covid, before russia/ukraine and diesel being super expensive to transport goods. $799 would be a good deal actually if the performance is a nice uplift.
you all need to stop living in fairyland. reality isn't even a bitch, even without all of those factors I mentioned, prices go up over time. so $799 is purely logical in expectation.
... the 1080 Ti MSRP was $699, so whatever you paid above that would have been a premium for a third party model with nicer cooling. It was also the flagship SKU of that generation. All the while you were
hoping for a 7800 XT - an expected
third-tier GPU - at $799, which would be a $150 increase over the $649 MSRP of the 6800 XT, which already had an inflated MSRP due to the precise factors you've mentioned already.
Pushing back against this isn't "living in fairyland", it's having some entirely basic perspective on price developments and what is a reasonable cost for a product. A $799 RX 7800 XT would be a travesty.
Remember: Navi 3x is made on a more advanced process, but has significant costs savings through being an MCM architecture, and while raw materials and shipping costs have increased over the past couple of years, they have been dropping since the pandemic started to ebb, and current costs are already much lower than a year ago.
Please stop making excuses for corporations hiking up prices "because inflation" and similar nonsense. You know what inflation is?
Corporations increasing prices. This isn't natural or forced onto them, it's a pure cash grab - and corporate profits have
skyrocketed over the past couple of years alongside these price increases. Almost as if it's all just greed....?
I bought my AVR new 10 years ago, and My sub I bought new in 2008 but is a 2002 model, so you know power consumption was not a thing back then 
