In your own reply, by your own Aquarius Logic, you imply that their* is probably a number between 0.00% to 1.00% adopters who aren't aware of the move NVidia has made.
Just an observation or two.
1. Aquarius Logic isn't a thing, so no need to capitalize. Aquarius (logic) is actually an enterprise simulator in software.
2. If you plan on coming across as erudite, probably best if you don't make basic grammatical errors straight off the bat.
*You see what you did
their there?
That's the rhetoric question you are asking in the quote up above to indirectly imply your points.
No. I am not asking a rhetoric
al question. A question of any description ends with this notation "?". What I stated, rather than implied, is that Titan X consumers would be well aware that Nvidia would launch a cheaper card with most, if not all, the performance of the Titan X. Unless you are of the opinion that people who spend $1000 per graphics card are somehow completely ignorant of recent history even if they cannot grasp the concept of understanding the business model that is geared towards maximizing amortization of the silicon. There is also ample proof (as I linked to earlier) that shows the concept of a cheaper 980Ti was generally accepted and commented upon even before the Titan X launched - as an example
I posted both the name and possible price point back in January. It's hardly rocket science if you have even a passing interest in graphics.
For those that are completely ignorant of how history works, have little understanding of (nor seemingly the inclination to find out) how the graphics market works, and have $1K to toss at a single piece of hardware that will be rendered second-class kit within a year.....well, maybe they can commiserate with people who bought the last best things such as the Titan Z and 295X2 that were worth cents on the dollar mere months after launch.
In an indirect perspective or point that shares a relation to your point, and it is any individual could argue that they (adopters) are 99.0% to 100.0% suckers because they paid for NVidia's sweet deal of a 23% above GTX 980 in performance with a full GM200, no 64bit Floating Point Precision, and 12GBs Framebuffer--card. This line of thought would be true. If not, your first point made by you isn't true.
Getting past the utter senselessness of your grammar, by your reasoning, every person that pays a higher percentage of cost than the product delivers in performance against some (arbitrary) baseline is by definition a sucker....presumably including yourself,
since you seemed perfectly fine with spending three times the amount of a 290X to gain twice the performance. People use different metrics aside from pure value for money when buying hardware - not least of which are that they can afford it, and they will put up with paying a premium for have the best hardware they can purchase. You could ask a dozen people what is an acceptable price to pay for a graphics card whose relative value and performance degrades as soon as the next best thing is on the shelves, and get answers ranging across the entire range of market segments
It later begs the question why would you buy NVidia products only to be screwed by it in a shorter interval of time (2 to 3 months) and be ok with that?
Because for those 2-3 months,
these people have been benchmarking for fun and profit....2 to 3 months of enjoyment they wouldn't have had had they sat around like the vast majority of consumers waiting for better relative value. I would have thought this was obvious for someone who claims to have bought the Ares II and HD 7990?
question to someone more knowledgeable.. what is AMD's answer to and Nvidias vxgl
The basic underpinning of VGXI is the partially resident texture (PRT) feature of DX12/11.3, although from my understanding the VGXI has performance enhancements to enable the feature with lower GPU workload (at least for Maxwell µarch graphics). Having said that, I think all GCN architecture graphics can take advantage of PRT.
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Someone hand me some anti-upgrade-itch cream! I was just about ready to jump into a 290X or GTX 970 but with all the goodness coming around the corner I will just wait. But ugh it's tough, hence the request for anti-upgrade-itch cream. 
