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Conina said:

JEMC said:

That next gen's mid-range cards can offer today's high end performance levels is kind of expected. After all, the RX 480/580 and GTX 1060 are close to GTX 980 levels of performance. But the rest of it... I would like to believe it, as it would bring competition again.

Yeah, and this was expected after 1.5 - 2 years, not after 3 years:

• GTX 780 + GTX 970 ($329) were 16 months apart
• GTX 980 + GTX 1060 ($299) were 22 months apart
• GTX 1080 + Navi/Turing mid-range (~$299) will be 30 - 36 months apart

True, but I think that has more to do with waiting for the new process node, and also the huge demand for cards because of the miners (that made the launch of newer products not a priority).

The current 1080Ti and Vega64 are almost 500mm² chips, so it's hard to best that with smaller chips without a node shrink. We faced a similar situation in the 28nm era.