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Same! I still remember the 8800gtx being "current" high end and the 2XX cards being the recently announced space-age new ones. Then I stuck with AMD for a whil
by p1necone 4y ago
Same! I still remember the 8800gtx being "current" high end and the 2XX cards being the recently announced space-age new ones.
Then I stuck with AMD for a while (the HD 4870 followed by the R9 390, both were very compelling options from a $/perf standpoint when they were current from what I remember) and by the time NVidia came back on my radar again they'd gone through another whole ~10 generation cycle of 3 digit numbers and were back on the four digit ones again.
- iforgotpassword 4y agoAhem, the same happened with ATI, they just were lucky to have been renamed to AMD on the way.
- p1necone 4y agoI wasn't saying they didn't, just recounting my personal trajectory in the GPU model space.
- iforgotpassword 4y agoYeah, I think I actually wanted to reply to your parent comment and messed up