also it is strange that how people react on this same performance with old generation thing. we have these level card nearly every new gen where mid range performs approximately same with old gens high end cards but why people complaining about it more now? i think it is because of order. generally the order was first show people the best performing one then the others, people won't bother mid range much but ati made the order reverse this time and i believe this made the current situation like this.