Quote Originally Posted by Rollo View Post
You do not understand the fan and/or viral marketing world very well Sky.

If you're an AMD fan or viral marketeer, NVIDIA says,"We are shocked at how many people paid $1000 for 690s, but we're even more shocked a lot more people paid $1000 for Titans! Thank you for giving us record margins all you people with $1000 in your pockets!" but all you see is "690s sold very badly. Titans are doing a little better, but can't really be expected to succeed due to the lower performance.".

Raghu78 got it right- AMD needed a refresh, badly, to compete in the Q2-Q4 2013 market. People are going to get really, really tired of discussing the 7970. They'll get even more tired of buying it.

18 month old tech is 3/4 of the way down the EOL hill in the GPU and CPU world. About the only thing AMD can do to salvage is release the frame metering driver in working order, and fire sale 7970s so people buy another to save money.
You're looking at things at a very opinionated point of view. Yes Nvidia has the lead right now but it will be at least 12 months before Maxwell will be released as I doubt the 780 series will have just a 6 months life span. If rumors are true and AMD does release a 20nm chip in Q4 you can be sure that it will at the very least beat the 780 series and will likely do so for a good 4-6 months before Maxwell is released. Then you will have the opposite situation as you have today. What would be said then about Nvidia and its delay in releasing 20nm chips?

Everything that happens is not only due to good/bad management decisions, production cycles have a lot to contribute, and while Nvidia is releasing new products now, it won't have much of an answer at the end of the year when its AMD's turn. Don't be so sure Nvidia will dominate the market for so long.