You may just want to check the market share numbers for last Christmas.
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Well, you should check last market share numbers from the latest quarter, :biggrin:
ATI's mid to low offerings are pretty poor right now. The 5830 is regarded by many as the worst card released in a while and the 5770/5750 don't perform well enough in DX11 to justify buying one over a DX10 card.
Maybe this patch job will improve a newer version of both these cards.
I guess we will find out soon enough. The holiday season is fast approaching and both companies are going to want ever single xmas penny they can get.
Pretty poor? An HD 5750 matches nicely the HD 4850 and the same goes for the HD 5770 which performs virtually identical to an HD 4870. What low end cards nVidia offers currently? GT 240?, slower than HD 5750, GT 220 slower than the HD 5670, GT 215/210, slower than an HD 5550.
Those nVidia cards are hardly adequate for DX10 gaming. The rule has always been, next generation of midrange cards being as fast as previous generation high end, (HD 3870 as fast as the HD 4670, the HD 4870 being as fast as the HD 5770, or another example, 8600GTS as fast as 7900GTX, the 9800GT as fast as the 8800GTS 512, low end GTX 2x0 and 4x0 series doesn't exist at the moment (Current GT2x0 series aren't based on the GT200) nVidia also followed that rule all the time, the fact that your favorite company isn't able to launch low and midrange cards isn't nobody's else fault.
May be those cards will not perform best under DX11 but at least you have DX11 SKU's from top to bottom, something that nVidia couldn't done for more than 6 months. DX11 is an extension of DX10.1, so the performance drop is related to Tessellation and nothing else, who's gonna buy an HD 5450 for games? So is better than rebadging old chips for new cards again and again, I would be pissed off if I buy a Radeon HD 6670 and uses the same chip as the HD 2600PRO.
It failed to impress a lot of ATI fans, no shock. But look at the benchmarks now. They are dominating ATI. Simply dominating. It's not even a contest. In newer DX11 games you have NVIDIA's 4th fastest GPU keeping up with ATI's top chip.
If that's not impressive, then you are in denial.
You are the one in denial, saying that the GTX 460 is a match for the HD 5870 just because of a single game that uses Tessellation which definitively favors nVidia architecture is autism at best, if the GTX 460 1GB is so good, why it is priced below the HD 5850 and not pitted against the HD 5870 in terms of price? Perhaps because its not selling well?
I don't see such wins like you stated... only the GTX 460 overclocked can match it and also the HD 5870 can overclock really well...