In a world where transistor-per-$ growth is running at most 10-20% per generation, you have to get more out of the transistors you have, or else prices go up. O

In a world where transistor-per-$ growth is running at most 10-20% per generation, you have to get more out of the transistors you have, or else prices go up. Or both. So raw performance has stagnated and gains have been concentrated in things like DLSS 2.5 that let you get native quality at a 30% speedup or better than native DLAA at 0% speedup, or FSR2 Quality level quality at 50-70% speedup. Cause that gets you more performance out of a small increase of transistors/cost.