Wow...Nvidia just do not stop the trolling with these overpriced fail cards, now for the second time with the 700 series.
The cheapest GTX 770 is still £50-£60 more expensive than the equivalent 7970 with at least 4 games free, and this is the inferior card in pretty much every way (less VRAM, smaller bus, smaller die, less transistors, etc).
Worse still, is that this is a re-brand without a die shrink or even the slightest revision of silicon, making it shittier than the craptastic rebrands Nvidia is so famously hated for (9800GTX had some extra VRAM and die shrunk versions, same thing with the GTS 250, this thing has nothing extra or changed vs a 680), so these will likely be on the brink of instability judging by how badly GTX 680s reacted to slightest overclocking. GTX 680 owners are merely a BIOS flash away from upgrading to a 770 anyway, so they're not missing out on anything and since GTX 680s and GTX 770s use identical cores, OEMs will be busy BIOS flashing their leftover inventory of GTX 680s.
Oh and you gotta feel sorry for the Titan owners...good lord, as if it wasn't bad enough that they got arse-raped thoroughly on the terrible price, shitty performance and the throttling issues their Titans had due to insufficient power, now their one and only bragging right (the cooler) is passed on as budget-range garbage without even the slightest modification (other than the side plate saying GTX 770/780 or whatever). Even the freaking PCB is untouched straight from the Titan -- not surprising, they must have thought they would have fooled a lot more suckers into buying their colossally overpriced Titan(ic), so the leftover parts from the Titans that nobody wants to buy are obviously going straight in to these. Gotta love Nvidia, now shitting on even its most loyal fans with bucket loads of money to burn. Funnily enough, I was originally waiting for the Titan Ultra (full GK110 2880 core version) to release, but it is just way too late for me to even consider buying it, regardless of how good it would be, since Volcanic Islands are right around the corner (which will more than likely destroy the Titan).
Can't wait to see Nvidia epically fail next gen as well -- at least here in Europe & the UK. Most e-tailers here are constantly running out of AMD GPUs to sell and yet most of the Nvidia GPUs seem to stay in their inventory forever, even with MUCH lower stock levels of Nvidia cards. I sincerely hope AMD's Volcanic Islands take Nvidia early by surprise and wipe the floor with the Titan, because Nshittia have to learn the hard way that their overpriced shit just isn't going to sell if they're not willing to stay competitive.
P.S. W1z, how did you get the GTX 770 to use less power than the 7970? Which power state was the 7970 in (Zero Core or not)? Other sites are saying AMD's Zero Core still edges out the GTX 770 at idle.
