Fox2232:

On other hand, take peak clock on each of those nodes. And translate it to performance per $ uplift. In case of ATi and 90nm we are talking about 650MHz range.(X1950 650MHz) For 65nm it is 750MHz range. (HD 3870 777MHz - 55nm) For 45/40nm it is 850MHz range. (HD 5870 850MHz - 40nm; 6870 900MHz - 40nm) For AMD 28nm finally reached 1GHz and went only a bit above that with big GPUs. (HD 7970 & Fury X 1050MHz as 1st and last GPU on 28nm.) 14nm GPUs managed to go to 1400~1500MHz range. (Both Polaris and Vega.) And now 7nm reach 2GHz. (Navi) Then there is time: X1950 : 2006Q4 HD 3870 : 2007Q4 HD 5870 & 6870 : 2009Q3 & 2010Q4 HD 7970 & Fury X : 2012Q2 & 2015Q2 Polaris & Vega : 2016Q2 & 2017Q2 Navi : 2019Q3 I am pretty sure that if we collected high end GPUs from each generation. Added manufacturing node, date and clock. We would see trend over time showing that cost per 100M gates at normalized 1GHz clock would show trend that continues to improve. One can say that from 2006Q4 to 2012~2015 (where cost per gates stopped to improve) we got only some 65% clock uplift. While at time from 2015 to 2019 (where cost per gates slightly goes up) we got already 85% clock uplift. - - - - On nVidia's side it would be different, but it would still show similar trend.

Does the frequency uplift come because of the new node allows it or does it come because these new nodes are no longer offering the benefits of true half size shrinks and increasing the frequency, employing custom cell libraries and optimizing the critical path are now the real path forward? There has been 3Ghz 400mm2+ chips on 28-90nm nodes. Regardless the question isn't whether 7nm is better or not - it obviously is overall. The question is if it was a better decision for Nvidia to also pursue 7nm for Turing (presumably sans RTX) or stay on 12nm and just build a giant chip because they can.

Michal Turlik 21:

Super cards are something that I still have to understand. At launch all the cards have been shown up, 2070, 2080, 2080ti, later we got the 2060. Three cards (the enthusiast included) vs one only (5700xt) Are u kidding?

Titan RTX was released December 18th 2018 RTX 2080 ti was released September 27th 2018 RTX 2080 was released September 20th 2018 RTX 2070 was released October 18th 2018 RTX 2060 was released January 15th 2019 GTX 1660 Ti was released February 22nd 2019 GTX 1660 was released March 14th 2019 GTX 1650 was released April 23rd 2019. Zero non-super cards were released at the same time. 2080 and 2080 ti were intended to be released at the same time, so you could be expected to say that was released at the same time, but they delayed it by a week, and that's historically how it happened. And realistically i'm going to go against what @D3M1G0D stated and say 3 AMD GPUs were released at the same time, as though the 5700 XT and the 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition were "effectively" the same card under the hood, it did out of the box perform better then the normal 5700 XT if you wanted more performance out of the box. Point here is you had 3 choices of graphics cards, base models, and performance to choose from.