I'm confused by the last part though, as it's being called a "new feature", but what new feature are we talking about exactly, NVIDIA?

owcraftsman
Bought and paid for like everyone else in the Green Circle. CEO has got to go unless his fan boys hang tight with this bully.

Fettle
Did Nvidia said 4gB GDDR5?. Yes.
 
Do we get it?. No.
 
Are all benchmarking applications and games carefully picked by Nvidia?. Yes.
 

Also I must ask if you hate Nvidia why are you on these forums, its quite obvious EVGA doesn't make AMD cards

 
To everyone:
 
Kindly teach this guy above me that calling someone out on their lies etc doesn't make us haters or one side or with a negative agenda. Be nice though and no bad language.
 
 

owcraftsman
I do not hate Nvidia I have no less than 5 Nvidia GPU deployed and have been a dedicated Green fan for 20 years but they are making it harder and harder to be so dedicated. The newest series (900s) should have blown away the competition and only marginally does so. The previous generation (700s) stomped on the life cycle of the 600s and still feel short except for the 3rd iteration (4gb)(Ti) on Nvidia optimized games. The promise of SLI is still largely a pipe dream with most games still experiencing random issues depending on driver. Way less than perfect by any stretch of the imagination. We still have to use SLI Bridges and matched pairs for SLI when the comp does not have the same limitation. They continue to maintain proprietary features that force game developers to choose how a game is made and optimized. The competition has offered an alternative that in the end would benefit all gamers, regardless of hardware which was rejected by Nvidia and immediately followed by creating there own proprietary solution again further complicating things.  The competition used 4GB of memory and a 512 bit memory bus standard on there top end cards before Nvidia who seems stuck at 256 bit and initially sold top end cards with only 2gb of memory. It was only after they realized higher resolution monitors, in more than a handful of games, required at least 4gb they started offering a 4gb edition. I mean really they didn't care enough to know this ahead of time? That's what gets me most about what Nvidia is doing these days, it used to be Nvidia leading the way, at the fore front of innovation and progressive thinking, instead of playing catchup from the rear or using a competitors initiative after the fact. Add to that the premium we pay for each new upgrade, we simple aren't getting what we used to for that upgrade buck. It's not that their cards aren't better, they largely are it's how they get there that largely benefits Nvidia not us. Consider how much better they could be.
This is just another example of how hype and facts just don't come together. Skewing games and benchmarks is only the tip of the iceberg, because that is what we see, it's all the lies underneath that, that is the problem. We have been duped like mind numb robots to accept the next new iterations as if it is the latest and greatest regardless of the facts which indicate they are trickling out innovation slower than Intel. That might be a slight exaggeration but noe the less you get the point.
It's the same old story AMD vs Nvidia or Intel vs AMD when you win the market share you simply invest in other things, setting innovation on the sideline and worst of all not fixing long running issues.
I have chosen to support with my hard earned dollar a company (AMD) that appears to be trying to correct this problems. It does not make me a fan boy but I do feel like I'm doing my best to correct and otherwise dysfunctional state of gaming and high end GPU market. God only knows what all this would be like with out them and Nvidia solely in charge. Bottom line I can't wait for AMD Fiji 390x as it will be my next upgrade for my main gamer PC and once again represent innovation that I used to get with Green. It may not be perfect but it will be supporting real innovation not hype.
On a lighter Note
Here's a Headline & caption for ya

Nvidia wins market share from AMD

 source

and here's a SHOCKING interview with Nvidia engineer about the 970 fiasco

 
 
 
source
       

owcraftsman
You got it wrong I'm in no way angered. Biggest reason why is I haven't bought a Nvidia GPU since the GTX680s two of which I just sold. Instead I bought a 290x shortly after them that out performed the two of them put together. Nvidia scrambled to compete which ushered in the 780 effectively shorten the life of the 680 in a way Nvidia never did before. At one time you could be assured your investment would last at least a year before obsolete. What are we supposed to do buy 2 upgrades per year now? That's insane or at least my pockets aren't that deep. If anything I feel sorry for those who were hoping for the same as usual especially Titan owners who have got to feel a bit cheated. More over I'm glad I didn't buy the BS so I'm far from angry actually patting myself on the back for controlling my impulses.
I have one of those 480s left in my arsenal the last lifetime guarantee card from EVGA and it's still a great GPU and it has a 320 bit bus but that's the kinda of thing I want to see before I buy another Nvidia card. I'm in the middle of a new build now and almost dropped the coin on a pair of 970s, boy I'm glad I didn't.
To the matter of more with less, that certainly doesn't apply to what we pay for Nvidia cards so It's unclear what you mean by that. If anything AMD does more with less from industry support to revenue they are surely on the short side. IMO 
Final word: I want Nvidia at the top, which is why I wasted my time here to begin with, but before I spend premium bucks I want a premium product at or beyond cutting edge, at a reasonable price and kicking ass with all competitors in it's wake like I'm used to with their products. Stop cutting up old silicon and reusing old memory architectures and stifling the industry with their proprietary BS to give us what we want.