do you have a source for any of this, and the associated cost decreases? That does not mean the price did not increase. Speeds, and their associated prices, HAVE gone up since their introduction in 2020.
Literally what? Are you arguing that nvidia made no major investments into software for the 40 series? Because DLSS 3 was kind of a thing. Ampere brought redesigned and more powerful RT cores.
When the cost of wafers has doubled from the previous generation how on earth do you figure production costs havent gone up?
1) across the world, real production costs went down (optimization, quantity of production, etc), but artificially brought up to increase manufacturers benefit pro unit, said by many CEOs that confirmed that they want bigger margins, not due to being more difficult. Some universities made studies and a real increase, if such, max 10%. The war between Russia/ Ukraine, the "commercial and pandemic war" between China vs. Others and decades relying on China almost exclusively, makes prices go up artificially.
If the world had many providers (China, India, South America, east Europe, etc) then even if China closes with a pandemic, even if Russia makes problems, other providers keep pushing hard; as that is not the case, China closing down let the world without masks, raw materials, health and electronic devices... well, the world pants down.
The same happens on supermarkets, at least in Europe:
- producers, farmers increase selling prices by 10%
- supermarkets and restaurants increase prices by 30-50% OR increase 20% but give you much less quantity
- 50% + 21% VAT (average) = much higher final prices. Thought farmers only increased 10% (inflation)
2) DLSS 3?! LOLOL that DLSS is the most useless thing ever. Instead of doing some tricks to make rendering faster, it just interpolates and makes fake frames simulating a higher framerate. Perhaps you may notice less stuttering but much more image flaws. If with DLSS 2 image quality lowers, with 3 ... well... no comments.
