I call BS.
you would not have bought the 980 no matter what the specs said on the 970.
I actually considered it. Why that might be relevant is lost to me though. I didn't buy a GTX 980. I was not thinking "I can save money vs the GTX 980". I was thinking "I can save money by
not buying."
People who buy flagship buy flagship no matter what. Generally the rest will buy the more economical GPU based on price and not specs.
Even at 20% less performance the card is still good value vs the 980 which means you would have bought it anyway.
A 980 buyer would be sitting back now thinking to himself.. this is why i dont cut corners.
Is this post just a post to congratulate yourself on buying a GTX 980 rather than a GTX 970? I fail to see the relevance to the quoted post of mine.
Yes i do.
Its pretty simple.
Some people buy the best and the rest buy the rest.
A 970 buyer only had one thing on his mind when he pulled the trigger and that was saving money vs the 980.
There is NO other reason to buy a 970.
How about... upgrade itch? You know what... forget it. I don't want to waste much more time arguing with you on what I would or would not have done. You are obviously proud of your purchase, which is good for you. However, I don't need someone on the internet telling me what I would or would not have done, second-guessing why I bought the card in the first place and labeling me with motives I didn't have.
I read the reviews I looked at the specs. The specs helped tip me over the edge. I bought the card. It was discovered that Nvidia chose to advertise misleading specifications. I chose to have that remedied by a full refund. That's it.
Why would any knowledgeable PC user buy parts based on specs rather than actual measured performance? Are there really people that go to reviews, read just the spec comparison charts at the beginning and skip all the benchmarks, and then make their buying decision? That's your own fault.
You know the term "future-proofing"? It's thrown around a lot. Guess what, when one does that -
that's also buying based on specs. It should be obvious that "buying for the future" is, by definition,
not based on measured performance. How about buying a card to play a game that'll be released 6 months down the road? I submit that it is sheer lunacy
not to consider the specs and the prospective future use of a card (or cpu, or whatever) when making a purchase. Otherwise, you can end up buying a 2 core CPU because the benchmarks didn't show a difference... in 2007 at least. Or going Windows 7 Home Premium because, at the time, you didn't need more than 16GB of ram, even though you were thinking about doing serious video editing and virtual machines... 2 years down the road.
I mean, why buy a 4GB GTX 680 vs a 2GB GTX 680? Or a 6GB 780Ti vs a 3GB 780Ti? None of the reviews showed a difference
(at the time of the reviews...)!