Quote Originally Posted by kgk View Post
Wait what? Comparing the current situation to the 8800GTX/Ultra era is like comparing apples and bowling balls.

I am more than willing to pay $600 for a GPU. However for that price it better provide commensurate performance in the current market. The 7970 does not do that. Not at over $600. Not by a long shot.

It's also rather pointless to consider spending over $600 on a 28nm GPU (unless the upgrade is drastically needed) when competing products haven't even been released and it barely exceeds the performance of the previous generation. There is no earth-shattering leap in performance.

Leaping into the next gen (28nm) GPU high-end without waiting until both companies have their products competing on the market means a person is either in drastic need of an upgrade, prefers them for a practical reason (Eyefinity or Linux support), or they are simply an impatient rube. If NVIDIA had released first I'd be saying the exact same thing.
Personally I am not willing to pay $600 for a video card, it's simply not something I need to spend that much on even if it offered 4x the performance, I have no use for 10x the performance for say $200.

It's only your perspective whether or not spending $600 on a particular 28nm video card is pointless. You cannot speak for the needs or wants of other people using your personal rational whether the competition has comparable product or not, that only suits your own rational.

I would imagine allot of people on this forum don't have a real practical need for the hardware they have, its the simple enjoyment of tinkering with the latest hardware and seeing what it can do.

I bet there are allot of folks on here that like to OC and bench hardware without much of a rational use outside of OC'ing and benching and dare I say not gaming.