Why did RTX 2000 series got so much backlash?
On 12/28/2023 at 7:29 AM, Gat Pelsinger said:But what about the benchmarks? The 2060 destroys the 1060.
The name doesn't matter there. The price does.
The RTX 2060 launched for an absurd $350, which meant that it launched for basically the same price as the GTX 1070 (MSRP $380).
And compared to the GTX 1070, the RTX 2060 is only about a 20% improvement while having 25% less VRAM. So it was basically stagnation, not progress. You get slightly better performance with 2GB less VRAM for the same price.
This was the case across the lineup. The RTX 2080 was only about 10% faster than the GTX 1080 Ti while costing the same MSRP and having less VRAM. The RTX 2070 was only about 20% faster than the GTX 1080 while costing the same as you could find the GTX 1080 for already. And the RTX 2080 Ti had an insane $1000 MSRP, that then effectively became $1200 for most of the life of the product.
Generational improvement from the 1060 to the 2060, or the 1070 to the 2070, etc was not the problem - the price was.
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