JEMC said:
The gaming market has never been as profitable as the prosumer one, and never will. That hasn't stopped AMD and Nvidia from launching better products with each new iteration. And given that the chips powering the gaming cards are derivated from the prosumer models (we'll have to see how this goes with AMD now that they've splitted their resources to develop for both sides "independently"), I doubt that push or improvement will slow down... at least because of crypto and greed. The limit to reduce the transistor size and how expensive the new nodes are may come into play soon but, as I said, this will have nothing to do with the mining. Those CPU prices may not hold in the future either if Apple's move succeeds and apreads into the PC market, where Nvidia can follow suit thanks to their purchase of ARM. Maybe CPU prices will have to come down to become attractive to a part of the market. Then again, the Celeron and Athom brands already take care of them so who knows. Also, all PCs need a CPU to work, but GPUs are an add-on, a luxury that not everbody needs, and as such, they can ask more because of it. We don't know how much the new 6700XT will cost (the non-XT version has been delayed), but it wouldn't surprise me if their MSRP is too high for what they offer. The 6800s and 6900s are already a bit (~$50) too expensive given how they perform. At least they should give better performance per dollar than the 5700 XT, because they're not going to ask for $449 for it, right? |
To be fair I think you're mostly right. We'll just be left with older nodes and leftovers of the higher-up products.
