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Too many cards

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BoogerBomb

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Is it just me or is Nvidia and ATI saturating the market with so many cards now that it is almost impossible to tell which one is for which segment and being able to differentiate performance without doing a weeks worth of research? Can we go back to the good old days oh 3 cards? You know high end, mainstream, and budget?

Now we have extreme high end, high high end, mid high end, budget high end, extreme mainstream, mainstream, budget mainstream, mid budget, budget and low budget segments.

Nvidia has the 6800 Ultra, 6800 GT, 6800 GTO, 6800, 6600 GT, 6600, 6200
ATI has the X800 Pro, X800 XT, X800 XT PE, X700 Pro, X600, X300

I can see diversifying their products to cover more market segments but I felt that three market segments where enough now we seem to be up to 7. There is such as thing as too much choice.
 
confusing? yes
new? no
remember in the past where there was the 9800XT, 9800Pro 256mb, 9800Pro 128mb, 9800, 9800SE, 9800 Pro 128 Bit? that was damn confusing :D
 
Well a lot of it has to do with PCIe cards entering the game.
 
I remember the 9800 series chaos. I had every friend asking what the difference was. And 3 returns because of it, Pretty crappy on the card companies part if you ask me.
 
true, but hey companies wanted money and they decieved ppl to get it :rolleyes:
 
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