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Re:After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning by joe_the_user on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @03:48PM (#18667608)
What I meant was basically I wished they stuffed more cores where the ray tracing stuff is in the 2080 and sold it for the same price. Obviously, that may not be a decision particularly in their interests. The only way it would be would be if they had a competitor that would do that. Now, they add audience specific bells-and-whistles to each chip and sell the chips at price they calculate each audience will pay. They do have to recoup the truly vast expenses involved in developing this stuff.

And sure, I want to Moore's Law pricing overall. Even if each generation is twice the power of the last generation, I still want each generation at the same price. But again, only with competition.

Re:After losing half its value, Nvidia faces reckoning by pas on Thursday December 13, 2018 @03:25AM (#18670739)
is it that simple though? maybe raytracing is more power (so heat) efficient, and simply putting shader cores there wouldn't give the frame rate increase you want.

or perhaps you're right and it's divide and conquer plain and simple.