How is this hard to understand?I know but I am, can you answer my question?
Oh I see now ,even though the second fastest card in Nvidia's line up the gtx1070 (that you guys call mid range) is faster than AMD's Fury x high end, the gtx1070 is still midrange. Is that what your saying?
So performance means nothing when choosing what is mid range or high end?
Or are you saying that AMD and Nvidia cards have different high end standards?
Or is the Fury Air midrange?
The 1070 is a midrange card because it's the middle of the Nvidia 1000 series lineup.
It's based on where you are in the product stack of your generation.
Yes, the Fury X is a high end card, but it's a high end card of last generation. It's only natural that a midrange card this generation would beat it.
This is what ALWAYS tends to happen.
The GTX 970, midrange card, but faster than the GTX 780Ti, the High end card of last gen.
Nvidia releases their cards faster than AMD (Or just on time, or just actually runs their business well, however you want to phrase it), and therefore, yes a GTX 1070, a mid range card, can be a top tier card for a long time on the market.
Being the second fastest(technically third. I mean, we do have Titan XP owners on this forum...) card on the market means nothing.
Please don't tell me you'd call Volta GTX 2060 a high end card if it released tomorrow and was the fastest thing on the market (excluding Titan XP).
For now though Nvidia rules the market with a midrange GTX 1070 and a High End GTX 1080 (Or upper midrange depending on how you feel since Nvidia doesn't produce a direct equivalent to AMD in this regard and actually has been fighting the cutdown version of a larger chip. We'll see where it lands this gen).