Quote Originally Posted by Stevethegreat View Post
I miss the days when new generation of hardware meant 100% percent update. It seems GPUs finally became like CPUs, incremental updates with each generation that only few (enthusiasts) can appreciate; the rest will be either scummed into buying into this new stuff or won't care at all. My one year old 5970 is still the fastest card out there, it's almost sad... It seems we're entering an end of an era.
Yeah but the blame can't be put entirely on hardware designers. I mean there's only so much you can do when you are up against electrical and physical boundries. Can't expect miracles time after time. Especially when redesigning an architecture 1 year ago from a shrink to the same node. I think the vast majority of fail is on spoiled end users thinking hardware makers OWE them something.