> but an 5x efficiency gain in a single generation feels like its too much, especially considering how newer process nodes have been yielding less and less impr

> but an 5x efficiency gain in a single generation feels like its too much, especially considering how newer process nodes have been yielding less and less improvements The efficiency is in other areas too e.g. memory, network, etc. It's TOTAL. > Here's a synthethic benchmark page listing every GPU in recent memory We don't have the GPU gains not because of process nodes. Nvidia and later AMD stopped investing in that direction. They started optimizing for AI not graphics.