A nice pair of 7950's for less than the price of a 290x/780 Ti will get those golden 60 fps at 1440P. Nobody is forcing anyone to buy the latest and fastest GPU and anyone who buys the fastest GPU and whinges about it, shouldn't be buying the fastest GPU, it's as simple as that.
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Amd & Nvidia ripping us off !
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As stupid as it seems, I kind of agree..
It's so blatant what they do. It's kind of insulting at times the crap they put out, but then they have to make money and that's just the way these industries work. Why bother going all out when you can sit and collect money whilst watching your only competitor play catch up.
I'd do the same.
It's so blatant what they do. It's kind of insulting at times the crap they put out, but then they have to make money and that's just the way these industries work. Why bother going all out when you can sit and collect money whilst watching your only competitor play catch up.
I'd do the same.
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As much as I would like to agree with you, sadly that's business.
Could Nvidia have released GTX780Ti instead GTX780 all the way back then? Most likely yes. Nowadays it's all about giving "just enough" improvement over previous gen , rather than giving performance that matches what people pay for. Also by capping single GPU performance, they got an excuse to sell even more cards by pushing SLI/Crossfire onto people.
Why do you think both AMD and Nvidia is banging the drum so loud about 4K gaming/battlebox programme etc etc despite most people won't adapt it yet? It is simply because it is an opportunity to make fast bucks from earlier 4K adapters, getting them to blow over £1.5K-2K on graphic cards.
Could Nvidia have released GTX780Ti instead GTX780 all the way back then? Most likely yes. Nowadays it's all about giving "just enough" improvement over previous gen , rather than giving performance that matches what people pay for. Also by capping single GPU performance, they got an excuse to sell even more cards by pushing SLI/Crossfire onto people.
Why do you think both AMD and Nvidia is banging the drum so loud about 4K gaming/battlebox programme etc etc despite most people won't adapt it yet? It is simply because it is an opportunity to make fast bucks from earlier 4K adapters, getting them to blow over £1.5K-2K on graphic cards.
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IF you buy a 290X and then Nvidia release something slightly better soon after, your 290X won't suddenly burst into flames and dissolve.
( well you never know
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I think we got trolled! cos the OP cant be serious right?
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I'm yet to see a 780Ti come anywhere close to beasting/ripping apart my 290X performance wise
Seems to me that both have Pros and Cons that you should think about before buying.
Plus there's far cheaper cards that will do anything you ask such as the 7950s in crossfire like Greg pointed out.
You don't always have to buy Top end, to get Top end performance.
Seems to me that both have Pros and Cons that you should think about before buying.
Plus there's far cheaper cards that will do anything you ask such as the 7950s in crossfire like Greg pointed out.
You don't always have to buy Top end, to get Top end performance.
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Yeah, give us our 200FPS or our money back!
The OP can't be serious surely.
First comment sums it up for me :/
The OP can't be serious surely.
First comment sums it up for me :/
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I don't believe for a second the OP bought a 290X.
A card performs the same regardless of what a rival launches - and when the newly launched card is in a significantly different price range then it is pretty irrelevant.
The thread is complaining about us not getting the great performance he thinks is out there and is doing it by complaining about a better performance card being released? Also with some wildly creative numbers on the performance front. Gotta be a troll.
My fairly cheap card can still play the same games it could play two months ago, in fact slightly better due to new drivers. So I've gained 'despite' the release of these new cards. Just because it's further down the card hierarchy doesn't make it any worse a card.
A card performs the same regardless of what a rival launches - and when the newly launched card is in a significantly different price range then it is pretty irrelevant.
The thread is complaining about us not getting the great performance he thinks is out there and is doing it by complaining about a better performance card being released? Also with some wildly creative numbers on the performance front. Gotta be a troll.
My fairly cheap card can still play the same games it could play two months ago, in fact slightly better due to new drivers. So I've gained 'despite' the release of these new cards. Just because it's further down the card hierarchy doesn't make it any worse a card.
+1
It is not like you can even compare a 290X and a 780ti, one will be better at some things and the other at different things. Users should buy a card to suit the games they play.
If the OP wants huge performance at a reasonable price he could always go and buy 2 x HD 7990s plus waterblocks and still have change out of a grand for a Big Mac.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=25258572&postcount=16
Let's not forget that the OP has loads of spare money (and is also going to save £5000 a year), so he is more than capable of having a mega rig that gets exceptional frame rates. I'm not trying to belittle you, your post is just totally bizarre (or your drunk).
Bottomline, brand new tech costs more. Anyway, if they make it too fast, then they totally destroy their own market as people will hang on to really old cards. It's like appliances and car's etc, they are designed to break (or a finite life span).
Bottomline, brand new tech costs more. Anyway, if they make it too fast, then they totally destroy their own market as people will hang on to really old cards. It's like appliances and car's etc, they are designed to break (or a finite life span).
Nvidia and AMD are forced to stretch out the current gen whilst they wait to move on from 28nm fabrication. They might have been able to unleash these "new" cards earlier, but it would be a long wait until they get replaced. The marketplace wouldn't have appreciated a 2 year gap between releases.