I bought my EVGA version a month ago at my local Microcenter. The price dropped only $50 in that time and yesterday I went to get my $50 refunded because of their price matching. At the time they when I bought mine they had well over 25 units in stock. They are down to 16 now and pretty much out of Asus brand cards. I came from tha GTX 1080 ti, so expected a good speedup. Been only waiting for 2 years to upgrade. I skipped the 2000 series because of high price and marginal speedup over what I had. It came in very handy in short light baking time for my Unity3D freelance job. I was not going to wait for the 4000 series. Point is, that the release of the 4090 and other cards have been delayed, so pretty soon you may only be able to get used ones that may or may not have been used for mining. Since the memory chips run pretty hot on that card, I was not going to buy a used card.

JAFO: You don't need a stopwatch to time the render, Poser 12 has an icon on top right you click on, and it tells you the exact time, memory usage, other stuff and what errors it encountered. I only found that function recently. Sorry for the late post.