So Fermi was a failure then?
It shares all these characteristics with HD7900 series:
- It consumed more power than the competitor's cards at similar price levels
- It was faster than the competitor at similar price levels and faster in overclocked states
- It had more VRAM than the competitor
- It performed better at the then next generation graphical feature (tessellation vs. DirectCompute global lighting model/contact hardening shadows for GCN)
- It had class leading GPGPU compute performance
That sounds a
LOT like HD7000 series.
Sure, Fermi was 10-15% faster, but Fermi was 6 months late and GCN was 3-6 months
ahead of Kepler's desktop line-up. Your logic that AMD's graphics are failing is very much exactly the same reason Fermi failed...except Fermi didn't fail at all. It sold well. So please explain again why GCN cards are failing?