Most Disappointing Hardware Release (2008)

[Omastar]

Yep, worst hardware is Phenom, not the Geforce Cards. Nvidia are just expensive, but their cards still perform well. Phenom doesnt perform well at all.

So merely by virtue of its inability to trounce Intel by 40% in every benchmark means it doesn't perform well *at all*? Are you wearing all blue right now? Because that's the impression I'm getting.

And I'll hop on this nVidia dog pile. GTX280 rolled out at like $600 and didn't compete with the HD4870 at ALL in terms of design efficiency or memory bandwidth efficiency. nVidia already had the market by its juevos and decided to milk some more by just brute forcing more power into G80 and making a big, hot, low-yield die. I guess AMD really is the 'smarter choice' in the most literal meaning.