Not matched by the increases in revenues,profit margins,profits or free cash accumulation to the extent of well over $2 to $3 billion extra over the last six years(plus the Intel settlement on top). Nvidia has made enough extra cash over the last six years,they could probably buy AMD outright if they wanted to.
The die followed by the memory are the two most expensive parts of a graphics card. So many items also require the same silicon manufactering from TSMC,Samsung and Intel and move to newer process nodes,and the R and D costs and any other costs don't seem to outweigh the move,so nope I do not agree with you at all.
Unfortunately for you,other companies like Apple and Microsoft also use these nodes and yet don't show the same increases in costs,and so do every other company which makes anything else which requires transistors.
Only hardware enthusiasts on forums,seem to think 3.64X increases in going from one 500MM2 chip to another one is normal. Intel for example charges 73% more going from a fully enabled 32NM 240MM2 chip(Core i7 980X)to a 14NM one around the same size(Core i7 6950X) and that is over 6.5 years and issues with 14NM. Increased node costs and a shrinking market are cost multipliers but not to the extent we are starting to see prices go up at such a high rate.
Intel has not shown anywhere as much of an increase despite having much higher overhead in building fabs than many companies,and having at times needed to idle capacity,or shut down existing ones.
I have these discussions with people before who put their heads in the sand for years,when I predicted how things would go with Titan onwards or even to a degree the HD7970. Enthusiasts need to realise we are a cash cow for other areas. Intel used us to try and fund mobile,and Nvidia is using us to fund forays into mobile,cars,etc.
AMD is mainly held back by its CPU baggage which is crippling the company and taking up the Lion's share of resources since if Zen does not succeed,they are finished. This is why CPU and GPU revenue has been hidden as one metric to hide how dire things have got on the CPU especially,and since most R and D is now being diverted to Zen,it is probably one of the reasons why AMD has not even released Vega in any form yet. Yet,in most cases when it had the best cards and CPUs,it did the same(apart from the HD5000 series) and charged decent money. Any increased margins from CPUs and GPUs in the enthusiast space will be used to fund other forays.
AMD will quite happily do what Nvidia is doing if they have a better range of products.
You are another PCMR hardware enthusiast who really has not been following things for the last decade or so,and is in denial. The price increases have easily gone past any cost increases or a shrinking market.
I called it yonks ago,when people like you just argued with me. Its happened as I expected.
You and I are cash cows,deal with it. Nvidia or AMD are not our friends.
Sorry,to say this to you,I am not going to agree with you so don't waste your breath. I see where this will go and we will need to agree to disagree.
