Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
What I see is people hyping their expectations up to a point where nothing short of mind blowing performance for less than $400 will satisfy them.

To me, that's completely unrealistic.
I just wanted to add that not only are you 100% right, but that this has happened since I can remember when any new GPU or CPU comes out... people hype it up and lower the price and are disappointed. the one launch that I can remember that was not seen as a let down was the G80 one (and a few before it's time as well). considering we have NO IDEA how fast it would be and there was close to no information on it until it came out and destroyed all of the DX9 cards. everything since then has been hyped beyond reason.

Quote Originally Posted by boxleitnerb View Post
Not one of you has given a good reason why. Why should the successor to a 300$ card be priced considerably higher? Why is +60% on a new node completely unrealistic? If you follow this logic, chips will become faster but more expensive. So in 5 years we have +200% performance and +200% price? That is completely unrealistic.
I don't get why you deny that perf/$ will increase considerably - as it did with every new generation eventually...in every market segment.
I think you totally missed the point on this. not to mention totally missed the last 5 years of GPU pricing history. high end GPU's since the 8800GTX have always cost any-ware from $500-$700 and have out performed the last architecture by 50% or more... the price stays the same and the performance increases in the respective price bracket.

honestly i don't see why people think Nvidia are going to change the formula. since the dawn of GPU time we have seen:

-high end (best performance but poor price to performance ratio) For example: GTX 580
-mid range (good performance and best price to performance ratio) For example: GTX 560/GTX 560 Ti
-low end (poor performance and poor price to performance ratio) For example: GT 520

on a side note. TinyTomLogan over at OC3D did mention in one of his videos that he has been testing some new graphics card and that they will be released on Tuesday (the 31st of Jan). what they are I have no idea. 7950's I would guess but I guess you never know.