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Pemalite on 29 January 2019
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haxxiy said:

Yeah, fuck that.

I also disagree with Perm's statement that the RTX 2060 is a mid range card. It's over 400 mm2 and retails for $350 or more. GPUs with similar features have always been like 10% of Steam Survey's userbase for instance. If your "mid" is 90% of the way through, then... that doesn't seem right, does it?

It's definitely mid-range.

There was a Geforce GTX 960 built for the OEM markets that was 400mm2.
The Geforce GTX 560Ti was a whopping 520mm2.
The Geforce GTX 260 was 576mm2.

Mid Range cards that are 400mm2 or larger is an occurrence that has happened a fair few times. - As a process matures, then the larger you can make your chips... Which is why at the end of 28nm/16nm/14nm die sizes can be larger than the first generation of chips.

And on the odd occasion a mid-range part is a die-harvested higher end part, the chip doesn't shrink, just parts of the chip are deactivated... (And sometimes can be re-activated like the Radeon 6950 into the 6970.)

As for the pricing argument, nVidia has higher prices, it's just that simple... Because AMD cannot compete with them in the high-end... And nVidia is able to push exclusive features like Ray Tracing... They can push a higher price, it's capitalism/competition at work... Intel did the *exact* same thing before Ryzen burst onto the scene.

And of course... Above the Geforce RTX 2060 you have the Geforce RTX 2070 as the mid-high end part, Geforce RTX 2080 as the high-end part, Geforce RTX 2080 Ti as the ultra high-end part and the Geforce RTX Titan as the Enthusiast/Pro-sumer/Professional part... So it even sits in the middle of nVidia's product stack once lower end parts roll out.



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