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> I think they’ll probably continue beating Intel but the new nVidia cards look really good, and very good value.

AMD have much lower power consumption, that was my main motivator for Ryzen and AMD Radeon as dev station.

Really? The general sense about AMD has almost always been the reverse, both as compared to Intel and Nvidia in those respective spaces.

5 years of process stagnation (Intel) will do that. Samsung's 8nm process used in Nvidia's cards is not as good as TSMC 7nm and that shows in their power consumption. Historically Nvidia's architectural efficiency has been much higher so it's not a given that RDNA2 will be more efficient even with the process advantage.

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