So the rest are bad, but the 7800XT which is the exception isn't good. I like you would greatly prefer it to only cost $350 and that the rest of the market would shift right along with that, but I don't see that coming to pass anytime soon.
I wouldn't quite put it to those extremes.
If we're talking general lovelace pricing, I have had one opinion since it was announced: outside of the 4090, everything needs a 25% cut.
4080: 900
4070 Ti: 600
4070: 450
4060 Ti 16Go: 375
4060 Ti: 300
4060: 225.
Now that we know that the 4090 tends to enjoy a nice BBQ time, you can easily say it's entitled to a nice price cut too.
As for RDNA 3, the problem is that once AMD realised it was bad, they seemingly lost any and all ambition whatsoever and priced it overall poorly. An XTX scarcely deserved 1000 but it's a flagship so fine. 7900 XT was ridiculously badly priced compared to the XTX at 900.
The 7600 offers the same VRAM, same general capacity, at a barely lower price than a 4060, except with far worse power draw and no DLSS.
In this horror story of a gen, that Nvidia didn't want to sell because H100 was 1000% the production price and even a 4080 was only 300% at best, where AMD didn't know how to price because...because they're idiots (can anyone seriously defend the 7900 XT at $900???), Navi 32 is an honest offer.
It's a card that they could have sold for $550 and got sold for $500. Sure, the 7700 xt is a bad upsell next to it, but that's fine since yields were probably good and frankly the 7800 xt is just a better card in so many ways.
If anything we'll be lucky to see the new price tiers remain stable as inflation nibbles at them over the next decade.
The problem with using your subjective valuation is that it would mean there are no good cards. There may not be any for the foreseeable future either. If everything is bad, the word loses meaning.
Irrelevant. This isn't inflation, that's the story Nvidia fed people. It's disinterest in the consumer market, plain and simple. In Nvidia's case, the balance they wanted was to sell as little product as possible without losing any marketshare to AMD. AMD didn't want to get aggressive with pricing because A) the product was bad and B) they really have no chance of making more money by lowering prices since 90% of Nvidia buyers think buying AMD is a mistake no matter what the price is. Ultimately a price war just means less margins unless Nvidia initiates it.
Out of a gen that neither side wanted to sell because neither had anything they wanted to sell, we got the worst asking prices in history. If AMD was actively taking marketshare, we may see something different. If Nvidia wasn't making 6x more margins with AI, same.
Now it's about when either of those will happen. RDNA 4 won't be it, that's for sure.