I was truly looking the cut-down GP104 which turned out to be the $449 1070. I was hoping that this would be around +20% of the 980ti for $300 which may seem like a lot but we jumped almost two full nodes so why would I expect less?
nVidia used to at least try to offer this kind of value..
The $300 8800gts was about 40% faster than the outgoing $500+7900gtx with just a half node jump.
nVidia should be charging $300 for what we think may not even equal last gen's high end. I understand if we were on the same node but this is a cutdown chip that is almost
half the size! all a node that is rumored to be getting great yields! It uses normal GDDR5 and a 256-bit bus.
A $300 1070 would have been fairly compelling but now i will be waiting to see what Polaris 10 can delivery under $300 as we have zero new cards to choose from the most popular price bracket on the planet.