AMD needs to execute better because this time round it will have the inferior N5+N6 processes against nvidia using the better N4.
AMD needs something of a change like the Radeon HD 3870 -->> Radeon HD 4870.
Going from 320 shaders on 55 nm to 800 shaders on 55 nm in only 33% bigger die.
For some weird reason the Navi 21 is less dense compared to the base capability of TSMC N7 process.
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Density is
limited by the node
but it is
determined by the design/architecture.
The practical max of a node's density varies even on a single design/chip on a single node, depending on what kind of work is done in each block.
For most if not all chips, the 'density' is never the theoretical maximum density of the node.
Just about daily I see people make far worse social/financial choices than spending $1600 USD on a luxury entertainment product that actually probably works out to at most $2-3 per hour of entertainment over the lifespan/ownership time of the product. Does that make it right? no, but I'll focus on the more important things, and steer clear of the much larger and more detrimental (financially and socially) products, and only silently judge the people that buy them.
Absolutely, just buying a top end card isn't always turning into bad value and you can definitely do worse! Then again, we saw what happened with Turing's 2080ti in terms of, for example, resale value. New gen will slash the price hardest on the top end.
Still I think, like it does for CPU for quite a while now and has been doing for GPU since shortages, the resale value of past-gen components is going to go up, and buying higher-end is going to be more likely to keep its value. As the performance/watt and absolute performance increase per gen starts falling flat, the value of old components remains.
The fact is I can probably STILL sell a GTX 1080 with significant age at over 250 bucks today, easily half of what it cost at the time.
And look at the 3090 now compared to its successor. That will keep its value as well, much better than previous generations used to do, simply because the 4090 is so horrible