WHy is the VC&G community so toxic and negative?
the natural reaction to any news in here is always negative, and always about tearing down something else. Its always about what it DOESNT have, rather than what it does have. Its always about the "ifs" and "buts" never about whats actually in front of us.
We literally just got benchmarks confirming that a $379 card can beat last generations $1000 card. How can you not be excited or blown away by that?
Who cares if the relative performance to its higher performing brother is wider than the previous gen. Does it make the card any less fast or impressive? NO. If you're in the market for a 1070, you're in the market for a 1070. If you care so much about the difference between 970 and 980, go buy a 970 and brag to everyone how its only x% slower than a 980. Meanwhile the rest of the world will be enjoying a titan x for under $400.
This rhetoric and logic in here is getting really tired.
Last year's after-market 700$ 980ti card already beat the 1000$ Titan handily, and they will probably beat the 1070 (as OC 980ti already basically match stock 1080).
Last year's 980ti xtreme gaming 980ti already beats the Titan
by 17% (without extra OC).
You can buy it
from amazon for 690$ or non overclocked (otherwise the same) for
600$
The Titan X comparison is just marketing and PR, and not really relevant at all to how well the card performs (clarification: in regards to price/perf). The Titan X has horrible value, and it's no coincidence that the 1070 is compared to it, instead of the 980ti.
But until that's proven wrong, I'm going to go with what the CEO of the company publicly announced versus what "everyone pretty much knows". Sorry.
We've already seen that the 1080 FE doesn't overclock like crazy, although JHH said so
on stage. It should probably teach us that PR and marketing tend to exaggerate and overblow things.