See that's your problem. You are what you accuse others of. Just because I disagree with you at times doesn't mean I prefer one over the other.
garagisti even posted the reference to where BonzaiDuck was discussing a Gold 970, which is why in his post in this thread I suggested to Bonzai to re-assess the curernt GPU landscape since even though back then his MSI Gold edition 970 wasn't that overpriced, today it is.
BonzaiDuck: "The MSI GTX 970 "Gaming" 4G model has great reviews. For about $40 more, you can have the GTX 970 4G Gold LE version, which has a vented back-plate. These cards are so heavy and huge, I decided to pay for it."
You are biased and won't admit it.
I am not biased towards AMD, I am biased towards price/performance. I am also biased towards trying to give consumers what I think is better advice based on experience and how GPUs age and based on GPU cycles. You know what advice that is?
It's better to find a sweet spot, get a card good enough for your needs, pocket the savings and move on. If you can spend a little more and get a lot more performance, I recommend that often. Later on upgrade sooner instead of overspending today on a flagship card, unless you can afford to do that almost every gen. For gamers who can, I have no reservations about recommending 780Ti SLI, 290X CF or 980 SLI at launch @ their MSRPs. Hence why I recommend R9 290 instead of R9 290X, 670 over 680, 970 over 980, 970 SLI over 980 SLI, 570 over 580, or HD7950 instead of HD7970, or unlocked 6950 over a 6970. But you haven't paid attention to any of this over the years since all you see in my posts is AMD vs. NV. You aren't even seeing that I don't like recommending expensive AMD cards either. Why is that? I usually go out of my way to find a better sweet spot and advise the gamer to upgrade sooner with the $ saved.
Further, is it my fault now that AMD had superior price/performance for nearly every generation since HD4850? Because AMD met that criteria, it got my $, not because I magically love AMD or something.
You want me to outline my reasons for buying AMD cards based on price/performance, I can. I paid just $195 for my HD4890 when GTX275 was $230-240. I lucked out and got 3 GTX470s for $210 a piece when the market price was $350. I later paid $230 for my unlocked HD6950 2GB to get more VRAM when GTX570 was $350 and GTX580 1.5GB was $480. All of the AMD cards I bought with bitcoins and they mined me more to get free 7970s. Why would I need to buy so many NV and AMD cards when the mining cards are also gaming cards? I don't understand your point. Just because I skipped Kepler and 970/980, doesn't mean I won't buy an NV card.
Notice that I also skipped 290/290X. I won't upgrade until I find a good sweet spot for me with price/performance, but I will still recommend others AMD and NV cards depending on their needs. If I get a good enough for myself deal on an R9 290/290X/970/980, I might get those, or I might wait to Pascal or get discounted GM200/390 cards. It all depends. I don't just buy new hardware when it comes out like you. For example right now my HD7970s OC are good enough for me. If Witcher 3 or some other game changes that, I'll grab something better. I can't tell you since such game didn't come out yet that made me
really want to upgrade. If I was AMD biased, I would have bought R9 290s a long time ago and would have never recommended NV cards on the forums.
Also, I link hot deals on NV cards too!
In this 960 thread, I provided a GTX750Ti at
$100, and my post clearly states a gamer could save $ and get this card for MOBA style games like LoL and DOTA 2 instead of wasting it on a 960 unnecessarily. Maybe someone out there playing these games was thinking of buying a 960, read my post and bam saved themselves $100 and got that great 750Ti. You don't see the trends in my posts though. Because most of the recent years I recommend AMD based on price/performance, all you see is me recommending AMD. I can't dictate the market pricing of AMD vs. NV though, which is why that I have recommend so many more AMD cards in the last 5 years. That said if I see an awesome NV deal, I do post it. Someone who is AMD biased would never do that.