Remember when Nvidia was kill but more people bought their shit

>>60965384
Remember when performance was valued more than noise levels with stock cooler?

>>60965384
Yeah but Fury was a flop. And Tri-X came a bit late from I remember and was always sold out.

>>60965429
How much cheaper was the R9 Fury than the 980 and 980Ti?

I just bought an 980ti for $330, and I shill for amd... but the fox 1070 is at 1080 prices and still no vega...

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>>60966621
Got mine for 250 bucks.

>>60966709
Yeah. I kept telling /pcbg/ that they should be getting R9 Fury for $240. They sold out a few months ago, finally.
95% the performance of the 1070 in a lot of cases, especially at 1440p, for way less money.

The MC on the Fury aren't as good as the usual GCN cards, though. That's getting fixed with Vega at least.

>>60965384
>Nvidia
>kill
Got that backwards son. Pascal should be illegal as that shit straight up killed RTG and Volta gonna finish the job.

>>60965384
You should have posted Fermi vs Evergreen

>>60966926
>buying GPUs with planned obsolescence built into them
Just buy Chinese knockoff prebuilt PCs while you're at it.

>>60966998
As opposed to buying GPUs that don't get good until a year later and by then they've been replaced by new models anyway?

>get amd card because it seems like a better deal, more powerful, etc, and they MUST be better by now
>dies after a couple years
>get nvidia card instead, put off by card death
>thing lasts forever, end up upgrading while its still fine 3 or 4 years down the line because I lived out the performance lifetime of the card comfortably
>repeat forever
this is the consumer GPU cycle.

>>60967043
7970 is 6 years old.

>>60967063
One of my Nvidia cards died within a month of the warranty expiring, and the other was a lemon. Anecdotes don't mean shit.

>>60967180
u fgt

>>60966993
I long for the days of the 5770, 5850, and 5870 smashing up the charts.

>>60965384
AMD used to be THE cards to use for GPU computing...
now nVidia has more powerful GPUs, and CUDA
AMD dropped the ball badly

>>60967043
>As opposed to buying GPUs that don't get good until a year later
Kek

This is why I don't buy AMD
I don't want to wait 2 years for a stable Card with 100% performance.

>>60967297
Fermi out performed those with ease, though.

People never cared about temperatures and power consumption, which the popularity of R9 290X among enthusiasts adequately reaffirms years later. If it has the right price and right performance, it sells. And if anything, Fermi did have the right performance.

Price? Maybe not so much.