[EDIT]hmmm.....whats going on at AMD? (and history of 3Dfx Rampage)

[RolloTheGreat]

http://techreport.com/news/30482/report-...d-partners

I have no clue whatsoever why people are buying these.

They don't offer more performance than the cards they already have, so what is thee point?

"Yay! Yay! I bought a new card with the same performance I had 3 years ago! Yay! My computer stays the same! I would be confused by more performance!"

Kind of like when you bought an Xbox One when you already had a PS4?  What did you say?  "Yay!  Yay!  I bought a new console with less performance than what I had a year ago!  Yay!  My console is now less powerful!"

Not at all like that.

Consoles are a different concept than video cards entirely.

With consoles, all the games look about the same because they're either 1080P or 900P, so you buy to get features one has the other doesn't, or you buy for the exclusives one has the other doesn't.

With video cards you typically don't upgrade except to get a performance boost.

Even my switch to a 980Ti Classified is "kind of" an upgrade from the reference because it has a healthy factory OC and the heavy duty board and cooling design make it lock in on higher boost temps. (so it gets 10-15% more performance, and can hold that instead of throttling)

Buying a 480 would have been like me buying another reference 980Ti.