I didn't do an exhaustive investigation, but only went to Newegg to search for '7970 6GB', 7870 4GB', and 'GTX 680 4GB' and 'GTX 670 4GB'. I got 1 Sapphire 7970 out of a total of 85 7970s ($600), 9 GTX 680s (starting at $520) out of a total of 41, and 6 GTX 670 (starting $420).I myself just cannot fathom buying a card with under 4GB GDDR5 at this point, if these rumours turn out to be true then Nvidia have once again gone the cheap route on memory for their high end cards(excluding titan).
How do you conclude a 'once again' from this data?
Are you saying that this Sapphire is the only AMD GPU you can fathom buying?
How many other potential buyers do you expect will impose the same constraints? How many game developers will use this, for the foreseeable future, as a consideration?
It's kinda funny: I remember GPU vendors being ridiculed for putting too much RAM to trick customers into thinking it would help with performance.
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