Its a name and a tier/price point buddy. Wake up. The fact we get a new x80 that is doing so little gen-to-gen is reason they're respinning their old Ampere stack below the x80 for a while, for example. Its the reason we're overpaying for 2 year old performance. Meanwhile, the die underneath is just way below expectations for an x80 tier product, while the price is beyond reasonable for that tier. And everytime, its memory that's just subpar. In Ampere it was capacity, now it's bus width/bandwidth, and its the
most effective way to reinforce planned obscolescence. We can talk about magical new cache all day alleviating memory requirements, but in the end, if you start pushing that memory, it just won't suffice and you'll experience subpar performance. History repeats.
In 2017 the street price of an x80 (with a notably more powerful x80ti above it, 1080ti) was about 450~520 eur. Now we're getting a handicapped product with the same 'just a name' at twice the amount. This is proof that Nvidia is stalling in progress gen-to-gen, and bit off more than they can chew with RT. Are you paying for their fucked up strategy? I sure as hell am not. I called this very thing in every RT topic since Huang announced it: this is going to be bad for us. And here we are now, 3 generations of RT, still very little to show for it, but everything sensible has escalated into absolute horror: TDP, price, and size. And that's ON TOP of the bandaid to fix abysmal FPS numbers called DLSS. And here's the kicker: its not even turning out to be great news for Nvidia in terms of share price.
They have a third left of their peak share price now, and no signs of it turning.
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So sure, I'll drop it now
No ADA anytime soon, its no biggie, still have not the slightest feeling I'm