[paulmd]

the reason NVIDIA has a lead right now is largely because they didn't slack off during the Maxwell era and kept iterating even after the 22nm/20nm node fell though. AMD decided that hey, we can't really afford this right now, and NVIDIA can't shrink either, right? But NVIDIA slipped in a major architectural iteration that was basically a full node worth of efficiency gains, and that really has put them in the position they are today.

Being able to take a trailing-node strategy during the Turing/Ampere years, being able to run a full node behind RDNA1/2 and use dirt-cheap Samsung crap and last-gen TSMC 16FF/14FFN while still fighting AMD to a standstill on efficiency is entirely the result of AMD slacking off.

AMD themselves have said they slacked off. Lost focus, is the quote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1956&v=590h3XIUfHg