the timescale is irrelevant? are you kidding me? they provide the same nvidia did 8 months ago and that doesn't matter? see the full picture mate, being 8 months faster than the competition means that they are pretty much a monopoly, the only reason AMD is still in the GPU business is that nvidia is more expensive. if nvidia would slash their prices then AMD would be gone, luckily they aren't allowed to become a monopoly.
So when Nvidia were late with the 4xx, 5xx and 6xx series (three generations in a row) and playing catchup, that was different to AMD being behind with the 290? Not to mention Nvida and AMD have always released cards at different parts of the year from each other.
If Nvidia slashed their prices so would AMD, in most cases Nvidia have to slash their prices to stay competitive with AMD because people know they are better bang for the buck. You think they slashed the price of the 780 just for the fun of it?
your 50% more expensive argument is completely irrelevant, the 290x is overpriced as hell compared to the 290 as well, which is overpriced compared to the 280x. same on nvidia's side. if you buy parts in the high end market you are always aware that the price/performance ratio isn't exactly great, not to mention that the 290x isn't half the price of the 780ti either, it's 4/5 of the price.
I meant the 290 and 780 not the 290x but it's still 25% more expensive than the x for 10% the performance.
And it's still 50% the price of a 290 or 780 for 10% the performance.
How can you not see that as being a bad thing is stupid.
you only look at benchmarks and at the current point in time, i look at where nvidia and AMD are going to be in the future and where they were, considering the competition between the 7xxx and the 6xx series this generation of AMD's cards is a failure. if the next generation is going to be late like the last one then AMD's fate is in the hands of nvidia.
Yes I am looking at benchmarks in this current point in time because that is all that matters. These cards are competing with each other and not with cards coming in the future. When AMD and Nvida have cards out from the next round of cards then I will focus on benchmarks from those cards at that point in time and only between those cards.
And competition between the 7xxx and 6xx? AMD's cards are failures? I think you will find that the 7950 is faster than a 650Ti or around the same, the 7970 is faster than a 680 and a 7990 is faster than a 690.
If not by much AMD's 7xxx series are better than Nvidia's 6xx series, but both lot of cards are good cards from both AMD and Nvidia.
Not to mention AMD R7, R8 and R9 series are better than Nvidia's 770, 760 and below.
Yet again you are ignorant to the facts.
stop degrading me to a fanboy, no matter how often you say it, doesn't make it true. it's just a cheap trick to make my argument seem irrelevant.
If you are not a fanboy why are you coming out with all this crap about AMD being the worst team, sounds pretty fanboyish to me. You have a dislike for AMD and it is clear to see, you refuse to accept facts and continue to come out with crap to defend Nvidia and discredit AMD.
You are making this about AMD vs Nvidia when all I was doing was making about cards vs card.
You are a fanboy, or you are doing a great job of sounding just like one.