Cartels have diversified their income sources to the point that if their drug income fell to 0 overnight they would still survive. Human trafficking, farming, natural resource extraction, and extortion make up very large parts of modern cartels income.
We should still legalize/decriminalize drugs to hurt the cartels, but it won’t ruin them like it would have say 20 years ago.
PCIe scaling isn’t really significant. With a 4090 you lose 2% going to 3.0 instead of 4.0 at 1440p per techpowerup https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-pci-express-scaling/28.html
He is using amd instead of nvidia and linux instead of windows but his card is so much slower that the drop should be a lot less
From some other benches people have posted, ultra settings at 1440p he should be averaging 180 fps then even if he is using 3.0 x4 due to lane splitting from ssds which is roughly equivalent to pcie 1.1 x16 then it’s probably still not the main culprit
Moore’s law is kinda still in effect, depending on your definition of Moore’s law. However, Dennard Scaling is not so computer performance isn’t advancing like it used to.