The big difference this time I guess is that besides Crysis and select games at extreme settings/resolutions,all other games are easily taken care of by current hardware. I remember when the 8800's were released, they crushed every game and every SLI config easily in a time when having the most extreme setups were required to beat games such as Oblivion and FEAR and so on. Then came a single card that crushed all of that and more. This time though, there's only really one game unplayable at high settings and even then, it still requires multiple GPU's to play it at 2560x1600