[bryanlarsen]

Lots of historical precedence. The first few generations of 3D cards used to more than double in performance every generation. They'd get a process node bump, an architectural bump, a DRAM bandwidth bump and they'd often be bigger than previous generations.

[saiya-jin]

You are not correct, there was NEVER 10x jump (apart from software render of same scene vs 3dfx one, which is not apples to apples).

True, initial first few generations were sometimes progressing fast, but only because architecture was clunky and everybody was just exploring new realm of chip & API design.

So, any outrageous 10x performance jumps in this industry IN LAST 15 YEARS? :)

[yread]

8800gtx could do more than 2x the fps compared to 7900gtx so in theoretical perfomance the difference was likely even bigger

[bryanlarsen]

I explicitly said that the 10x claim was nonsense. I expect 2x-3x.

[saiya-jin]

you are right, my bad for reading too fast. still unconvinced we'll see a big performance breakthrough, although list you posted seems impressive

[bryanlarsen]

No problem, I do the same too, sometimes.

Your point about financials is spot on, though. We don't have the competition we had during those early generations; I expect nVidia to bump prices. I think that the Titan and 980 ti cards have sold surprisingly well, so I expect nVidia to try even harder to find enthusiast's price ceiling, as well as try to bump the $200-$300 sweet spot up in price a bit.