4060 is one of the better-value options in the stack, actually. The RX 7600 is still on 6nm and is no faster, much less efficient, and skips many of the microar

4060 is one of the better-value options in the stack, actually. The RX 7600 is still on 6nm and is no faster, much less efficient, and skips many of the microarchitectural improvements to rdna3 to try and keep cost down. $250-270 is fine for this type of product even today. Similarly, the 4070 is also fairly attractively priced even compared to 6800XT/6950XT or 7800XT. More efficient, better feature set, same performance tier, similar perf/$. But people still get upset about intangibles like memory bus or die size (despite this already being measured in the performance!), or just don’t want to admit that wafer costs and R&D costs are rising in the post-Moores law era. Operating margins were actually down relative to the last few gens (until AI hit), and were broadly similar to 2012 levels. This is just what it costs now, and smaller die take the worst of the cost increases because memory controllers and pcie don’t shrink anywhere near as much as logic (the gpu cores). There is a “minimum cost floor” that has been rising substantially due to this.