A $550 card that's ~5-10% slower than Titan depending on the game engine?...and that's not even being optimistic. This sounds like the AMD/ATI we've come to know, they always come through since AMD took over. These cards will be beast and probably get a bump in up in VRAM if the new console games are going to soak up that 8GB they have. Also, I'm pretty sure the 9000 series would have been on a smaller node if TSMC could of done it. I got high hopes for AMD's GPU division, I think over the next few years Nvida is going to become overwhelmed...they just don't price their cards right, they took the performance lead and instead of taking over the $550 price tier...they just start a new $650 and $1000 tiers??? WTF Nvidia, you have become to conceded or you simply can't produce affordable chips. I love how when Nvidia delivers the next gen first we get a huge price hike, but when AMD does it they do the right thing and take over the top tiers and lower the last gen's prices. Honestly, I think Nvidia did us consumers dirty this time because they didn't get the Xbox or Playstation deal...and they are worried. I'm not starting a flame war but, I really think Nvidia should have replaced their last gen. line-up with the new 700 series...not pull this OMG WE GOT THESE SUPER UBER SO FAST CARDS THAT AMD WILL NEVER CATCH UP TO SO WE GOT TO SELL THEM FOR $300 AND $500 MORE THAN LAST GENERATION OMG AMD DRIVERS WILL NEVER WORK AND WE CONTROL THE VIDEO MARKET SO GET DOWN ON YOUR KNEES AND PAY UP FOR ROYALTIES WE TOOK ALL YOUR CASTLES! Yeah, right Nvidia...2 months later AMD's drivers are fixed and 4 months later AMD's cards are just as fast but still $300 and $500 cheaper because your new price tiers only exist at Nvidia.
Yes, I realize Nvida has always price gouged early adopters and many people are aware of how Nvida plays. It's just so anoying that they do it though. They sit there and dangle the current fastest card in-front of your face and say,"oh but wait, we wan't $200 or $300 more than it's actually worth until we get some competition." Then a couple months later they drop the prices to $50 to $100 more then AMD's competing card and justify the extra price as being the premium that people who want physics and cuda have to pay. Which makes sense if you want that stuff I guess. Eh, I just don't care about proprietary gimmicks that really don't seem to deliver. Truly, Nvidia has in the past been the one with exclusive partnerships with game developers...Hence their "The Way it Was Meant to be Played" slogan. But, as of late, AMD seems to be the ones taking over that role with exclusive partnerships with developers. Nvidia, is just playing the big name reputation card and price gouging harder than they ever have before...We'll see how it plays out, but my $$$ is on AMD.
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