Do I have to? Oh well...
Case re-opened.
If you are actually caused mental duress by a graphics card being below your expectations, fair enough. That's just silly now, isn't it?
In your view people seeing this card as a good thing means these people are blinded? Not true. They simply do not have the same very high expecttaions that you have of this release.
You can post on these forums all day about what you expected but people have different expectations so please do not harass the good people on TPU for having more realistic expectations than you.
The 5 series cards were great from AMD. The 6 series were not such an improvement. I see this as a significant step up from the last series in terms of combined usage of gpu compute capability and gaming purposes.
Please don't have a go at people for being different to you. They accept it as good - you don't. You can post considered comments and you'll get civility back. But when you start jumping up and down like a little child, well, you look silly. No?
So, let's all be mature.
You think 7970 sucks Kepler balls. Fine. Others think it kicks Fermi balls. Fine too.
Oh, and this:
is in fact just that and both are horrific.
Move on.
Wow, you managed to fit all that smugness and narcissism into one post?
Guess I'll have to try and top it. Oh well..
Let me re-cap.
1.) You're saying that other people have lower expectations of me and that is the problem here.
2.) You're saying that rape and murder are meaningless.
Well, I can't answer the second one. TOS, you see.
But the problem here is..
High expectations are NECESSARY. But they also are inevitable.
If you got excited because HD 5870 was twice as powerful as HD 4870..
Then to be happy right now.. you'd have to LOWER your expectations.
First of all, I don't want to. Why should I?
Secondly, an entire market suffering from cognitive dissonance is VERY bad for the industry.
Either you understand or you don't. Either way, case closed in MY book.