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I think yields is the main reason, although I'm not an expert in that area. If its a standard deviation difference than it will increase their manufacturing costs. Nvidia got around this from Ada--> Blackwell by simply increasing TDP for their high-end cards and adding more cores. Their is no IPC/efficiency/node improvement, if I'm not mistaken, for the first time gen-to-gen.


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