Yeah, but even if the 6850 jumped back to its release price, the 7770 would be a better deal only because of its power efficiency and some minor features, and not because of its performance. Now that is acceptable for an HTPC card, but speaking of gaming cards... that's just not enough.
This performance per dollar fixing is very disappointing and worrying.
We suppose to have more performance per dollar each generation, that's what is called progress.
Anybody could imagine how much a card would cost nowadays if they had the same perf/$ as e.g. the voodoo 2 card...
And if the...