I hope this isn't like the bitcoin miners situation where the supply/demand was out of whack for years. In fact, gpu prices never really recovered with gpu designs several years old still selling for the original MSRP or higher and newer designs coming out with MSRP greater than $1,000. For years, PC prices were kind of fixed: I could build a complete gaming box with 2nd tier hardware (typically last years best or 2nd best hardware) for about $1,500. Only one component kept creeping up in price: the GPU while some components like hard drives went up and down, but trended down overall. A nice mid-range GPU that could play games at decent resolution and quality settings used to be about $200. By the time I needed a 1080 for VR, decent cards could have $600 MSRP or higher. I got my 1080 from NewEgg for $480 after a rebate, just before the bitcoin market surged the price up to $1,200 on eBay. Eventually, I needed a 2nd one for my son. I considered getting a 2080 for me then giving him my 1080, but I couldn't bring myself to spend $800 or more on a gpu, which would be half the cost of an entire PC. Eventually, the supply caught up with the demand and I found a used 1080 identical to mine for $350, whereas used 1080 Tis were still selling for as much as a 2080 Ti.
If everything was available at MSRP right now, I would probably build an all-AMD rig with a 5800X or 5900X cpu and a 6800XT gpu. The 3080 Ti might actually be the better gpu in many respects, but again the price is just too high even if it is in stock and at MSRP when it comes out. All I can do is wait to see if the supply/demand normalizes and then I will figure out whether I am going intel/nVida, intel/AMD, or AMD/AMD.
