witeken
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- Dec 25, 2013
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I generally agree with your post. The thing here is that high-end and midrange is, from a companies' perspective, always relative to the competition. If Nvidia's -- I don't know -- say 1070 is as good as AMD's best card on the market, in their eyes the next tier (1080) will have premium performance compared to the market/competition, so they can pick and chose any price they want consumer to pay for that premium performance. Nvidia has done that for a long time to charge a lot for their best product, so no sherlock I would say. They just don't call it a Titan now, I guess.Yet,you also forget that the enthusiast chips have not increased in price by anywhere as much.
An example:
1.)Core i7 980X - 239MM2. RRP:$999
2.)Core i7 5820K - 356MM2. RRP: $389
3.)Core i7 6800K - 246MM2. RRP@ $434
So the six core chips have plummeted in price.
Now if we want to make Intel look worse,the RRP from maximum enabled chip to maximum enabled chip has gone up from $999 to $1723,ie,Core i7 980X to Core i7 6950X,over 6 and a half years.
But thats the thing - the Pascal Titan X is a second tier salvage product of a 500MM2 GPU which costs $1200. The second tier salvage product of the GTX580 generation which was of a 500MM2 GPU was the GTX570 which cost $330,
So that is a 3.64X increase in RRP. Intel looks rather like a charity in comparison.
Hence,my point still stands,Nvidia has been successful in marketing that price increase,and good for them. What I find is funny PCMR enthusiasts seems so much in denial how much they are cash-cows now for other areas,just like Intel used enthusiasts as a cash-cow for Atom chips,which were sold at cost or a loss.
If you add in the cost peculiarities of the 16nm node (and if you live in Europe the anti-democratic quantitative easing), you can certainly get some interesting pricing structures, irrespective of the underlying product characteristics like die size which are invisible to the consumer.
Now if someone were to make a performance per dollar comparison like the die size discussion .