Quote Originally Posted by flyck View Post
You seriously believe Nvidia will choose to be on-par (IF the rumours are true which i don't think so) with AMD when they can easily be on top as well? I mean seriously?

Its better to be described as: they needed their GK104 to compete with the high-end because their own high-end isn't production ready.


specs from wcf are wrong.
You forget Nvidia doesn't think like you or like any 1 person. Nvidia is a company who's major concern is profit and sustaining that profit.
So if they can sell a 300mm2 chip for 550$, and in order to commit their limited resources to a 520mm2 chip they must forego 2x 300mm2 chips (just as example), they will most likely choose the most profitable route first route.

The consumer is not really missing anything as there is head to head competition on all ends. And performance wise, we don't "gain" very much by having an 800$ card in the market you know. Very few bought the 8800 Ultra, as the GTX and GT were clear better choices perf/$.