Are there ANY good 40 series GPUs?

People were extremely excited with the RTX 4090 and the launch of the 40 series Nvidia GPUs. But that excitement has died and the cards are largely sitting on shelves. What happened? Here is a breakdown of the entire 40 series price to performance uplift over the previous generation.

Sources:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/13nj9i1/rtx40_compared_to_rtx30_by_performance_vram_tdp/
https://www.3dcenter.org/news/news-des-19-mai-2023

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0:00 RTX 40 Series vs 30 Series by NAME class (price, perf, VRAM, TDP)
10:22 RTX 40 Series vs 30 Series by PRICE class (price, perf, VRAM, TDP)
15:15 Nvidia wants to sell this gen on features, not raw performance
15:55 Frame Generation is a good, but situational, "win more" feature

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