Aspiring techie :
So this won't kill the RX 480 like the rumors said. Still, the only thing keeping it from mauling it is price.
Why is Nvidia jacking up the prices on all their skus this generation? Is it because manufacturing costs are up or because they want to milk their temporary sovereignty for all its worth?
Why is Nvidia jacking up the prices on all their skus this generation? Is it because manufacturing costs are up or because they want to milk their temporary sovereignty for all its worth?
Probably yield and supply challenges. Nvidia isn't the only one using TSMC's 16 nm fabs, so it makes it more difficult to get the GPU dies as TSMC occasionally has to make dies for other customers. Then there are yield challenges.
AMD undoubtedly has yield challenges as well, but GlobalFoundries likely has less demand for its 14 nm transistors than TSMC.
I honestly expect the next generation of devices from both companies to be less expensive due to increased yields. Unless they move to a new transistor node again, but that seems unlikely.