I don't make purchasing decisions based on what's 'fair', I look at what capabilities I have, what I lack, and what my budget is.
> Why does that seem the same to you?
Exchange rate. But you make a valid point that I should also factor in inflation.
> We’re in a ray tracing thread and for ray tracing, there’s no contest, the 4060ti wins there by a long way.
It wins in the sense that it can do ray tracing while the 1080Ti cannot, but based on my understanding, the xx60-tier cards aren't viable for raytracing at 60fps without DLSS anyway, and I'm still not convinced I want to consider DLSS performance to be the number I care about in my purchasing decisions.
> UserBench says today the 4060ti is 17% faster for 20% lower price today,
The most important question I look at is "what games can I run at what resolution" and I don't think there's a single game I can get acceptable performance at 4K on a 4060Ti or even a 4070, that I can't get acceptable 4K performance on a 1080Ti. There are probably a couple that I could run at 1080p that I have to run at 720p currently. I'm not using a variable/high refresh rate monitor and i'm not playing competitive shooters.