Quote Originally Posted by Dimitriman View Post
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.
The issue here is that AMD publicly said they won't have anything to replace their high end cards this year. To me, that holds more truth than rumors.

As it stands now, NVIDIA is essentially AT LEAST a half generation ahead of AMD. AMD needed a refresh which is something that should have happened five months ago. Instead, they will suddenly find themselves competing against refreshed NVIDIA cards that will walk all over them, necessitating price cuts.

To make matters worse, if AMD can't achieve at least a 75% performance increase over Tahiti XT with the next generation, NVIDIA won't even need Maxwell. They'll just reduce the price of TITAN, release a fully enabled GK110 and wait until Maxwell is fully baked.

And let's not forget AMD's track record on launches. We have constantly seen them release a card to reviewers only to make it available weeks or sometimes even months later. So Q4 2013? In the world of AMD launches, that means absolutely, positively nothing.