| Captain_Tom said: What makes you so sure? I have a 7970 that still plays EVERY game on Ultra maxed out. Hell the 7970 GHz Benches like a 780 now because of how forward-thinking AMD is with their architectures, and the 7950 beats a 680 when it used to lose to a 670. Who is to say that in 2 years the 290 couldn't be benching close to a 980 while the 290X trades blows with a 980 Ti? By no means am I saying it will happen, but weirder things have happened...
Oh and your VRAM comments make me remember 3 years ago when everyone said "You don't even need any more than 1GB of VRAM anyways!" Now all of those 580's are struggling to keep up with 6970's... |
AMD GPUs age really damn well but NOT that well ...
It's bad enough that Nvidia has to throw vastly much more transistors to beat a sizably smaller AMD part it would be humiliating to see a new 550mm^2 part having issues outing an old 440mm^2 part.
