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It's also due to the fact that gamers ARE paying the ever-higher prices, the demand IS there so Nvidia will take full advantage of that for as long as they can because high-end GPU development and production is clearly a difficult and expensive task and the fact Nvidia seem to keep pushing the envelope with 50%+ performance increases over the previous generation of bleeding edge cards is objectively impressive. There will most likely reach a limit of some kind where even gamers with deep pockets say "nah" and sales drop considerably, but we are clearly not there yet.
Probably because you can still buy a £100 board and get pretty much the same performance as you do with a £500 board. If you could buy a GPU for £300 that offered the same performance as a £1200 4080 then the 4080 price wouldn't have been an issue.
You can, it's called a RoG Strix
Today's cards are enormous compared to those of yesteryear. Every generation is bigger and heavier with way more stuff. Just comparing my old 1080TI to my 4090 shows this, its like comparing a fun sized mars bar to the normal sized (albeit still quite small unless my hands have grown a lot) Mars bar.
Yes sort of although I paid £1300 each for two Titan Pascals and ran them in SLI before replacing them with two 1080 TIs. They were the same speed as 1080TI pretty much just launched a few months earlier and had a hugely inflated price.
doubt that x670e has more pcie 5 lanes enabled compared to a b650.. its not the same thing, i would call that out as misinformation
by that logic even the pcie-5 power cables are functional..
They perform a function, yes
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i was speaking in software parlance.. but the idea is to segregate parts by explicit functions, of course the screw holding the graphics card in place is also performing a function, a motherboards job is to connect other parts to the cpu, there are no explicit functions a motherboard performs (other than maybe onboard sound processing and ethernet)
