VR has largely improved for 7000 series since launch. There were launch issues where the 7900xtx was being outperformed by the 6950xt easily. This has been fixed and you’ll find that performance is very solid now. For general use, you’ll find that the 7900xtx is typically better in rasterization performance but loses out in RTX performance. If you don’t care about ray tracing or play titles where it doesn’t matter or would hinder the experience, then 7900xtx all the way. Otherwise the 4080 is your card.
Ultimately this would make sense. Large portions of the 3nm manufacturing node from TSMC are currently bought up by Apple in the short term, so this will at least allow for them to purchase 4nm from TSMC while still furthering with 3nm from Samsung.