I mean currently the 7800X3d is cheaper than that in Finland, 390€ with 24% tax, ~$340-345 without tax converted, so I think non-usa ppl are just fine.

32GB 5090 and 24GB 5080 is the most realistic configuration.

A 32GB 5090 would mean 512bit bus, which this rumor is saying it will not have, contrary to the original rumor. So it’ll either be 24GB or 36GB(48GB also, but that’s probably not happening) as there will be 24Gb GDDR7 modules as well in addition to 16Gb ones(idk if mixing different capacity memory modules is a thing though to get like 30GB out of 384 bit bus, I’m just guessing no). Maybe they do both versions, or leave the 36GB as a potential 5090ti for later on, who knows.

it should have been the titan

It’s nowhere near the full AD102 die though, “just” 88.8% of the cuda cores less than the past x80Ti:s while in the past Titans were the full die. And the L2 cache that’s there to offset/help the “low” memory bandwidth is cut quite a bit as well vs the full die.

Anyways naming aside as that can be argued both ways many times, the reason ppl are buying it because nvidia made the 4080 pricing way too high relatively, not wanting a repeat of the 3080 10GB vs everything above it maybe, so it’s just there to upsell you on the 4090 as it is now “better value” so to speak. Remember they were originally gonna call the 4070ti the “4080 12GB” for $900 to upsell it even more.