Why would anyone want to play a racer at <60 FPS? Oh well, I guess I should be more surprised you didn't use the DS4X chart to just drive your point home further (pun not intended haha).
Simple, because DS2X produces playable performance on all cards and its better Image Quality than SMAA or even MSAA .
Bingo. And this can't be emphasized enough. This list is for Newegg Business.It's Newegg Business, so maybe they're only counting sales through neweggbusiness.com? That might explain the large volume of Workstation cards.
im surprised by how many workstation cards are sold
Bingo. And this can't be emphasized enough. This list is for Newegg Business.
@ tential
Well, I have said before that Fury is not 1080p competitive but for 4K its extremely competitive to GTX980Ti and Titan, especially in Dual GPU setups.
Even in Gameworks titles and especially Project Cars that AMD cards are under performing, Fury X CF at 4K is top notch.
Witcher 3
GTA V
Hell, those are GAMEWORKS titles and look how awesome Fury X performs at 4K, you know the resolution you really like to use.
Why post game benchmarks in a thread about business use of GPUs?
Was posted before title was changed...
The title, and topic, has always been about Newegg Business.
Woof, GTX 960 2GB in #2 for volume. Cue "mindless zombie idiot consumers" arguments.
Jeez, looking at those $200+ GTX 960s (not just on newegg, the 2 GB SSC goes for $210 at Fry's when I was there), no wonder more knowledged enthusiasts bag on them hard. At $165, mine was a bargain in comparison, and this was back in August before any supposed price drops.
from my own personal experience in life. about 60-80% of consumers are mindless zombies
So you are suggesting that when other NV AIB's sell 960 4GB versions for less than the EVGA 960 2GB, that the people who paid more for a gimped 960 aren't clueless sheep? Sorry, but one would have to be a total idiot to buy 960 2GB among all the stack of cards I list in my post below, including NV's other AIB alternatives.
Your argument is weak since you suggest that because 960 2GB is #2 by volume, that most customers aren't sheep and aren't clueless. If the customers were informed and objective, an EVGA 960 2GB would never get to #2 at $210 US.
I bet the $210 960 2GB buyers have no clue either that 960 is NV's worst x60 gaming GPU released in the last 5 consecutive generations:
http://www.computerbase.de/2015-03/geforce-gtx-460-560-660-760-960-vergleich/2/
760 came out June 2013. Just stating facts.
Ok. Now things make sense.
Was posted before title was changed, also following the conversation would explain why it was posted.
For someone who has followed the GPU industry for a long time, I am not surprised. I wouldn't be surprised if EVGA NV customers are also extremely loyal to Intel and bought Intel even when AMD's Athlon XP+, A64 and Opteron X2 owned Intel.
You don't have to look far to find more evidence outside of GPUs. Looking at the top 45 best selling vehicles in the US YTD November 2015 reveals that most consumers are also clueless about vehicles too from a perspective of a car person. Most car guys wouldn't be caught dead in almost any of these. I only found 3-4 cars that are actually good in that list. Now I am going to excuse the 3 trucks since a lot of companies/small businesses buy them for work:
http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2015/12/usa-vehicle-sales-by-model-november-2015-ytd.html
Look at headphones. Beats has close to 70% market share and their headphones are trash. Most consumers make purchases based on emotions, not logic or objective research. This isn't even debatable since it's already been proven in marketing research papers.
http://mag.ispo.com/2015/01/90-percent-of-all-purchasing-decisions-are-made-subconsciously/?lang=en
For most consumers, what matters is brand, perception, and what other people think of what you own/buy, not the product itself. That's why even if Newegg Business had a 390 for $199 alongside 960 2GB for $199, the 960 2GB would still outsell it.
How can you explain so many millions of people consuming 100s+ of cans of Coca-Cola or Pepsi annually, when it's not a very healthy beverage (to put it mildly as it practically has no high quality nutritional products in it). Most consumers are clueless simply because most people are or they just don't care. These things are inter-related. Good thing it's possible to make people more informed with proper research but it takes time, but sometimes you cannot cure stupid people.
I'm not saying/implying anything.
What argument? I said cue the complaints. Here they are. When I saw the 960 2GB listed #2 for volume, I knew it wouldn't take long for you to come in here and complain. And here you are.
Out of curiosity, why do you have GTX 260s in desktops for programming and light VM work?Why is a 2GB GTX 960 a bad choice for business? It is plenty fast and is very power efficient. We still have C2D/C2Q and GTX 260 machines at work that are fine for programming and light VM work.
Purchasing an R9 is wasteful when the GPU won't be taxed too much. These workstations are quite small and are not designed for gaming/long term heavy loads.
We have been on Nvidia for so long that a switch to AMD would be incredibly costly and would also have to worry about incompatibility for older software. We will also be on W7 for a long, long time.
I'll have you know if I didn't do much review on a new generation of chip, I would definitely suggest the x60 as a safe bet for price vs performance and power use.
With any generation of nvidia, I would be comfortable in suggesting a x60 with a 450watt psu without worry that they paid to much or bought a bad card.
so we almost got pulled a fast one by OP.Bingo. And this can't be emphasized enough. This list is for Newegg Business.
Workstation cards sell in small volumes, and retail workstation cards (as opposed to cards that come with the workstation) are smaller still. If you have a workstation card in your top 5 list by total sales, then you're definitely not looking at consumer sales. A GTX 960 or similar would be topping that list.
@ tential
Fury X CF at 4K is top notch.