Both AMD and NVIDIA released a new generation of graphics cards with new architectures this year: the RX 7000 series and the RTX 40 series, both of which have significantly improved their performance.
From a technical point of view, the two graphics cards are very interesting this year, but some things are getting more and more wrong. Many people in the technology media have begun to think about the thinking of the two graphics cards. A few days ago some German media complained that the price is out of control, now some foreign media reported another current problem: GPU is in the wrong direction, not only expensive, but also getting bigger and bigger.
The first is the price. Foreign media said that the current global economic environment is not good and inflation is severe, but the price increase of the two graphics cards has exceeded the inflation rate. Since 2020, the rate of inflation is around 15-16. %, but the price of RTX 4080 has increased by 71.5%, and RX 7900 XT is also 38.5% more expensive than RX 6800 XT.
Not only the price increase, foreign media also mentioned another point, that is, the size of the video card is getting bigger and bigger. Foreign media cited a comparison someone posted earlier, and the size of Asustek’s RTX 4090 graphics card is almost as big as that of PS5.
In short, foreign media believe that AMD and NVIDIA have gone astray in the direction of graphics cards, not only the price has risen too fast, but also the volume of graphics cards has been exaggerated. Foreign media hope that this type of expansion will not penetrate other graphics cards, and still hope to see a portable and compact mini PC at a reasonable price, but the current development trend makes this direction infeasible.
PS: It seems a bit unfair that AMD is lumped together in foreign media articles, because regardless of price or volume, AMD has limited the RX 7900 series a lot and shouldn’t be compared with NVIDIA!
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