> And nvida is just milking performance by power draw more current (less efficient)
You'll be hard pressed to find a generation where power efficiency actually decreased. That didn't happen with the RTX 30xx series, for example. Even though power skyrocketed, performance increased by more than power did. Meaning efficiency still increased. That's been true for every generation I can think of, certainly all the more recent ones anyway. Maybe AMD had a few like that where they just re-rev'd the same architecture multiple times in a row.
Not NVidia, Intel. Intel has been unable to do a die shrink for years because they own their own fabs instead of using TSMC, GlobalFoundries, or Samsung to actually produce their chips. The new 4090s are supposed to be about 2x performance of a 3090 with the same power draw because of the smaller process (5nm TSMC vs 8nm Samsung).
kllrnohj|3 years ago
You'll be hard pressed to find a generation where power efficiency actually decreased. That didn't happen with the RTX 30xx series, for example. Even though power skyrocketed, performance increased by more than power did. Meaning efficiency still increased. That's been true for every generation I can think of, certainly all the more recent ones anyway. Maybe AMD had a few like that where they just re-rev'd the same architecture multiple times in a row.
seanp2k2|3 years ago