GPUs are headed in the wrong direction

This year’s long-awaited flagship graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia aren’t normal. Perhaps we shouldn’t expect them to be. In 2020, AMD finally showed it had the potential to catch up to Nvidia in raw gaming performance, and of course, Nvidia desperately wants to maintain that lead.

But as a result, both companies’ new GPUs have bloated in a way we’ve never seen. They’ve inflated more than inflation…