[p1necone]

Same! I still remember the 8800gtx being "current" high end and the 2XX cards being the recently announced space-age new ones.

Then I stuck with AMD for a while (the HD 4870 followed by the R9 390, both were very compelling options from a $/perf standpoint when they were current from what I remember) and by the time NVidia came back on my radar again they'd gone through another whole ~10 generation cycle of 3 digit numbers and were back on the four digit ones again.

[iforgotpassword]

Ahem, the same happened with ATI, they just were lucky to have been renamed to AMD on the way.

[p1necone]

I wasn't saying they didn't, just recounting my personal trajectory in the GPU model space.

[iforgotpassword]

Yeah, I think I actually wanted to reply to your parent comment and messed up