Quote Originally Posted by Chickenfeed View Post
Had my fingers crossed for a $499-549 USD MSRP but with the lack of other competitive options in that bracket I doubt this will happen... Until Maxwell I guess!
If Maxwell has no competitive options, you won't see that price for it either.

NVIDIA may well have become the "Intel of GPUs" with this generation. With people buying all the 690s and Titans they can make for months on end for $1000. in 2012 and 2013, AMD only able to put out a chip the eclipsed the 580 by 20% (until they OCd it), then AMD leaving that 20% GPU their flagship for two whole years, I think NVIDIA has turned the corner.

From here on out we may have a $1000 "Extreme Edition" NVIDIA card, and then $400-$700 cards for the masses.

It's gotten so bad I actually saw "Gee do you think AMD will have a new driver to counter the 700 launch?" on another forum. Think about that: AMD fans are reduced to hoping they'll get a driver refresh with significant performance increases one and a half years after the card hit the market.