You can express disagreement without the low effort condescending response here man.
Personally, I agree with him. Anything less would be disappointing, frankly. We're still looking at a 300mm+ die on a successive node shrink(after skipping 20nm) that's been a long time coming. If they can get a 970 to basically match a Titan/780Ti on the same process, why couldn't they do it now? And that was with a £270 pricetag.
We will all see soon enough
. Also who said there will be a Ti version this generation of the 80's series ? No one knows if there will be a Ti, look at the 680 never was a TI, it only started on the high end full fat chips with 780Ti and 980Ti, also remember these were full fat chips, not like the 680 which was a mid range chip sold as high end as they are doing now with Pascal... So there is a good chance no Ti version too, until GP100 versions come out.
They are not going to wipe out the value of 2 very well selling cards the 980 and 980ti by making a 1070 same speed as a 980ti. Then some saying the 1070 will sell for £250-£300 and faster than a 980Ti... Makes no sense , so you are saying a 980 which sells at moment about £400 will sell then for £200 and the 980ti for £300 ?
They are going to do an Intel this time minor bumps to all the range and keep the prices about the same and then when they bring out the big guns the GP100 versions and maybe expect to see Broadwell-E 10 core style pricing or they will wait till end of next year for it to sell/release at a more normal price.
If the 1070 is the same speed as a 980ti then expect it to cost a little less than a 980ti but it will not be a £250-300 card. This is what I have been trying to say, also there are clear signs coming off from Nvidia that Pascal this generation is not what the customers are expecting so keeping very hush hush and not even showing real world demos at any events.
We all don't know what's going to happen, the computer enthusiast in me is wishing for huge improvements but the realist in me is saying it will not happen this generation and we have seen it with Intel recently too and AMD has been lacking for a good reason too.. It's becoming very expensive to make huge improvements that we use to see before.
Also the mid range chips I never buy anyways, I always wait for the Full Fat versions of a generation, so this really does not bother me which way it goes. I would like to see huge improvements as that will mean the Full Fat version is going to be fantastic. It all depends on how much of a crunch Nvidia wants to put on AMD again, they tried it with the 970 and 980 with the pricing of them and I don't think it really worked out as they thought it would, AMD still sold well too.