If the 7970 were so great AMD would not need to keep cutting the price.
Doesn't have anything to do with the point I made. Someone mentioned that HD7970 was a rip-off at launch prices. It was compared to HD4000-6000 pricing, but GTX280 and GTX480 were worse in terms of resale value while GTX280's launch price was $649. The 280's and 480's historical resale values plummeted much faster than 7970's. Thus, if one considered HD7970 to be poor value, then GTX280 and 480 were horrendous in comparison. Also, neither the 280 nor the 480 had 7970's overclocking headroom, or its bitcoin mining ability. So the lack of value in 7970 is really disputable as it made $80+ a month since January when not gaming. Not to mention HD7970 OC remains the fastest single-GPU, while neither the 280 nor the 480 could claim that title 10 months after their launches.
The steam survey and the 3DMark survey both show it lagging in sales.
Neither of those shows global sales numbers. Of course the posters here have no industry research, finance background or industry connections where they can get full blown ER reports, but yet they continue to repeat non-sense in light of professional information for which equity research analyst get paid big bucks:
Graphics Add-In Board shipments by segment, second quarter 2012. (
Source: Jon Peddie Research)
Interesting how only 4.7% of add-in discrete GPUs were those above $250 level, yet many times you have claimed now that AMD is failing because of poor sales of its HD7900 series and overpriced launch...So why should anyone who has access to this publicly available information believe anything you try to pass on as "facts" regarding sales and market-share data?
3DMark and Steam show usage patterns for a specific program and portray nothing accurate about trends for global sales of SKUs. Steam Survey was already shown to be an unreliable source for tracking real world sales of NV GPUs (before you joined these forums), under-representing Fermi GPU market share in 2010, when in fact NV was gaining market share rapidly. The strong demand in PC hardware/gaming/enthusiast upgrades is in BRIC countries (
Source).
Steam Survey Breakdown hardly shows any gamers from Brazil, India or China and a very small amount of Russian based-gamers vs. the country's active gaming population. Actually most Russian gamers don't use Steam as they pirate the games, so their hardware won't even show up. Furthermore, last quarter AMD discrete GPU graphics division gained market share from NV but according to Steam, AMD GPUs hardly sold. Again, complete disconnect between real world sales data and Steam. Finally, almost none of the GPUs bought for bitcoin mining or GPGPU / distributed computing will show up on Steam as those AMD GPUs aren't bought for games.
Again, using sales doesn't address the point regarding HD7970's resale value which is the whole reason for my response. Popularity =! what we are discussing, which is resale values relative to launch prices. Both the 280 and 480 cards fared significantly worse, with GTX280 losing nearly 2x more value than HD7970 in a similar timeframe. That makes the GTX280 one of the worst GPUs ever made from a resale value perspective. Ironically, the same gamers who keep saying how HD7970 is a huge rip-off never said anything of the sort in regard to GTX280 or 480, or mentioned how GTX680 continued to be overpriced until today since June 2012.
NVIDIA is putting out a higher quality product right now and the market is rewarding them for it.
Like FX5200, GTX550Ti, GT640 and GTX650 are quality cards since they are/were best sellers on Amazon for a long time? :whiste:
Sales doesn't mean the product is higher quality. It is not always correlated. Using your logic Coca-Cola and Pepsi are higher quality beverages than Apple or Pineapple juice.
- Budget PCB construction
- Budget VRM selection
- Locked voltage control
- No warranty support for any overvoltage beyond stock
- Worse overclocking headroom and scaling
- Worse MSAA, SSAA, texture mod performance
Doesn't sound like a higher quality product to me.
Keep derailing the thread further though with nothing relating to MOH:W benchmarks.
A few obscure benchmarks from sites that are blocked by virus scanners are not going to change that.
TPU, HWC, Sweclockers, TechReport, Xbitlabs, HT4u, Tom's Hardware, Computerbase, KitGuru, ABT, etc. all show HD7970 GE beating 680 overall.
Guru3D, TechSpot, GameGPU all show 7970/GE beating 680 in MOH:W.
I guess all of those are obscure reviewers?