And if you look at the Perf/w increase this gen, you'd understand that the gains are as large as ever but neither AMD nor Nvidia have the luxury of pumping twice the power in their cards anymore. You can still get the huge performance increases you're used to, just have to do it manualy by overclocking.
I don't understand this line of thinking. What was planned is absolutely irrevalent because for some reason or other Big Kepler is broken and won't be released without at least a base layer respin which would put it at a September release at the very earliest. The only difference is that is that instead of calling it the 670ti to save face, they are calling it the 680 because AMD lowballed the clocks on their cards to get better yields. Something that Nvidia is still seemingly struggling with.
And if you look at the Perf/w increase this gen, you'd understand that the gains are as large as ever but neither AMD nor Nvidia have the luxury of pumping twice the power in their cards anymore. You can still get the huge performance increases you're used to, just have to do it manualy by overclocking.
Good lord, always thought performance/dollar was the most important metric.
If you're unwilling to tweak the hardware to suit your needs then you have to live with what the majority wants, and that's higher power efficiency. That isn't going to change with the next gen, nor the gen after. Big Kepler isn't going to be a miracle for gaming because it'll be mostly compute focused. And to my knowledge (since Gf6xxx series and what was it, rv400 on the Ati side?) There haven't ever been such gains from overclocking on the whole lineup of cards.
Good lord, always thought performance/dollar was the most important metric.