Quote Originally Posted by orangekiwii View Post
from a price-performance perspective but

it wasn't a g80 in terms of next generation performance (stellar but not a g80 imo)
You see, just performance ignoring the price isn't the way to go. If you're interested in that, get 4x 4890.
Pushing a flexible chip most people can get their hands on means more optimisations and higher performance after all. So ATI didn't really lose there.
Making extremely huge cores with insane performance is good ofc, but for 99% of people that's like using LN2 to cool their CPUs. Too expensive to get and too demanding to the rest of the hardware to be really worth it.