Why is NV playing unfair with GTX280?

[xdivenx]

If you look at the GTX280, its chip is bigger than TWO 4870's!!. Why does NV have to play unfair in this round and make such a monstrous chip to compete with a single 4870?

I don't get it, you should always balance out technological playing fields for fair competition. You shouldn't be able to brute force this by just making a huge ass chip (which is basically 2 and a half 4870's) just to beat a single 4870.

I think NV would be more fair if they split their GTX280 in half and sold it like that.

I think the majority here would agree with me.

What!?

I hope this is a joke... >.>

 

[BinarySynapse]

And I commend them for that. However, there are already at least 3 (that I recognize the name of) users in here that have in the past berated ATI for being "unfair" in using 2 GPUs to beat the 280.

And yes, these 3 users have 280s in their sig. I won't tell the names in public since I'm not that kind of guy but they are pretty easy to spot from the way they respond in their posts...

Everyone's gotta have a way to justify their bleeding edge habits, especially when they bite them in the ass. Just let them be.

 

[Nyte]

Everyone's gotta have a way to justify their bleeding edge habits, especially when they bite them in the ass. Just let them be.

I guess I can't change people. I've done my best in making the 2-gpu-beating-1-gpu-unfair argument die a horrible death.

Good to know that there are at least some rational people posting in this thread.