Quote Originally Posted by Nintendork View Post
Seems some people look at averages where they include 1024x768/1280x1024 and the like. Seriously, would you buy a card of this level for this resolutions?





Places at the right position with an awesome price. Is that not a win?
The reason it is not win for alot of people is there was such a small performance jump from this generation. If you look at alot of the sig of people that wanted to get this card, they have a 5870.

People were expecting more performance from a new generation from AMD. Considering what AMD did with Barts on the same technology, on a smaller die, it was only right for people to expect alot more from a chip that is more than 50% bigger and using completely new technology.

The price to performance is good but it just matches the gtx 570 in this regard. Alot of people expected AMD to crush NV in this regard and it really doesn't. The only really positive review was HARDOCP and thats about it. Some people are positive like hardwarecanucks, but most are on the fence or disappointed, particularly with the 6970. The 6950 is good too, but it is not really a knockout. Especially when compared to AMD past products.

I can't believe alot of you guys were slamming SKYMTL last week for trying to control your expectations and not to expect so much. He was probably the closest to giving accurate performance for the 6970 and he had an NDA.