Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
Also we are seeing a lot of people including yourself for buying and making the choice of AMD this generation for what Nvidia was strong at last generation. That is it GPU computing abilities so I really don't get your annoyance or anger. Nvidia has been stressing this for years and in the past, a chasm even bigger than the performance per watt was established in favor of Nvidia cards in more GPU compute situation besides bitcoining and it held a tremendous lead for performance per watt in the professional market. This reason holds less water when talking about AMD based solutions at the moment because AMD is still largely untested compared to Nvidia on how good their cards are in the professional market. AMD needs to get their professional card out ASAPand get increase their driver support in this field exponentially greater because NV has a unquestionable lead in the professional driver support market(the consumer driver is somewhat debatable) and start winning more than a benchmark like luxmark in reviews and win in industry standard programs like Nvidia has done in the past. Nvidia's dominance here is unquestionable as well because of there vast marketshare lead over AMD in the pro market.
I'm not buying it for compute. Although I wanted a 7850, the 7870 outclasses all cards in the same price region on nearly every metric, even if only gaming related ones are taken into account.

Also, perf / dollar is a constantly shifting comparison between nvidia and ati due to the constant price drops that ati forced. What I was talking about was things like perf/transistor / mm^2 / watt, all sorts of things that were architecturally derived (and not market derived), that are now being used as merits for the nvidia instead of ati, while noticeably physx and cuda have taken a huge back seat in all reviews published thus far. It's hypocrisy.

Not that it really bugs me, but it should be acknowledged.