nVidia has plans to release the GeForce 9 series next year, which is going to make 8 series owners miserable, PS3 owners even more miserable than when the 8800GTX was released, and the rest of feeling like utter crap!
It is a sickening feeling. Being the owner of what was (once upon a time) a ‘great rig’ (rig read as system config; config read as configuration; if you don’t know what configuration is, go boil your head), when some new hardware is released, it really burns a hole in my heart. Especially if it was released at a price less than what I bough my newly ‘outdated‘ hardware.
Sob!
But then…we do need something to make Crysis-like-and-even-better games playable at high framerates.
But you know what? The graphics card is only a part of the rig. In all (nope, not even a rough estimate percentage…ALL) PCs, it’s either the processor or the hard drive acting as a bottleneck. The graphics card is way to fast for them. This is where we need <fill in name of new prototype/codename/whateva…> from AMD, which will succeed Fusion. I’m quite certain about that.