Yes and no. Objectively $650 plus tax is a lot of money. I intended to go with the non XT for $80 less. And I probably would have been pleased with a 9060 or 9070 GRE.

But I paid $540 plus tax for the 2700 super just before the pandemic. So with inflation, this felt like the same kind of hit. And I wasn't planning to replace the rest of the underpinnings either. 3900x, 64gb ddr4 3600, x570 motherboard).

I really just wanted shit to work (again). The frame rates are a bonus. It feels like coming home. And this coming from someone who remembers gaming on Linux before proton.