30% performance bar is a lot in silicon performance-space. To yield that amount of performance in same node, the engineering behind cores and memory doesnt come cheap. You are buying a piece of eletronics not Annapurna Aaata from grocery shop where twice the money is...twice the amount.
The cost behind the silicon that goes into same series higher end and lower end chip doesn't change or change nominally. Even if nvidia is selling the same silicon in lower end designation then also they are making a profit irrespective of engineering etc that had gone into it. Your examples about the atta etc are foolish.
of course they do, thats the point. The reason you are paying more IS necessarily to have more working cores, more IPC.
Your are now jumping on another point that refers to premium being asked for the same thing. And its not about the cost as you mentioned in your first post. But, surely its better than your annapurna atta example.lol
Stop refering stuff which is irrelevant here. The discussion was about GPUs, stick to that. It doesnt matter whether its a same chip, different chip, same tech different tech, node shrink or whichever potential optimization or enhancements a chip maker incorporates to make their higher-end products targeted to a specific market segment. The point is, there is a discernible and distinguishable performance contrast, and it calls for a price.
Nothing is free, whether the price delta is justifiable/exorbitant is altogether a different argument, that applies to the price point of the baseline itself, translating to another intel-amd-nvidia price-performance for value war over and over again. The purpose of posting all these is to foreground the fact that extra performance directly translates to extra price. Period.
I dont need friends or salesmen to convince me otherwise.
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You are jumping all over the place now. And listening to your following comments, I too agree with you that you actually don't need your friends or salesman to make you a fool. You are better at doing that yourself.
Wow! more than 200% for SLI and more than 300% & 400% at 3-way and 4-way respectively? Sounds too good to be true!
AFAIK SLI only provided 150% performance gain at 200% price. 3-way and 4-way SLI actually degraded performance in some cases. If these numbers are true, then we will finally be able to see some real performance benefits of SLI.
I hope it provides same results in real-world gameplay tests.
Ok, looks interesting. But, I doubt about the sli performace. A 200% increase is impossible IMHO. As there is always going to be some redundancy or communication gap between the two gpus working together vs a single gpu.
Also, synthetic benchmarks are indicative only. Real world performace is always much different. Also, the scaling is also going to be different in different games.
Still, I would say that nvidia might have improved/scaled there sli performace quite nicely if those benchmarks are true.
