26 February 2022

The rate of advancement in gaming performance...

 
50 class cards, 12 years apart...

I've been quite busy over the last month or so and haven't really had the time to put a proper post together. To be fair, there hasn't been much of note to really talk about. Sure, I spoke about the RX 6500 XT but there was no real point in covering the RTX 3050 because it was unsurprising and the industry reacted accordingly... So, in light of the hubub surrounding the RDNA 3 rumours, I thought I'd pull together my previous data sets and look at them from a different light.

Previously, I've looked at the relative value of GPUs over the last ten years; how the inter- and intra-generational performance, price and whether and when upgrades made sense. What I didn't look at and what many people have not looked at is the trend in performance we're getting per year in GPU class releases and where that may be taking us... 

So, that's where we are today.