Burty117
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How did I guess you'd point to something AMD.Polaris 10 perhaps? To be seen of course. This is way too expensive to be game changer.
To confirm, your idea of something game changing is something cheap?
I just checked, the definition of "game changing" is to do something out of the ordinary in a very positive way.
So I'll explain why the 1080 is "game changing" compared to at least the last few generations of Nvidia's GPU's (Maxwell and Kepler etc... all the way back to the 480)
So,
Between the 480 and the 580, about 10fps difference in Crysis Warehead (1080p)
Between the 580 and 680, about 12fps difference in Crysis 2 (1080p)
Between the 680 and 780, about 6fps difference in Crysis 3 (1080p)
Between the 780 and 980, about 11fps difference in Crysis 3 (however this was run at 1440p since Techspot didn't do a 1080p bench unless I'm just blind?)
Now onto the meat of it all:
Between the 980 and 1080, about 31fps difference in Crysis 3 (Done at 1440p as well)
Do you see where I'm going with this? In the last 6 years this is the biggest jump we've seen in performance. I'm sure I could go back even further and find it's been an even longer time since we've seen this sort of performance boost.
Not only has the performance got dramatically higher but the power usage hasn't increased and neither has the price (unless you want a reference card). It's also the first time we've seen a new X80's series card dramatically beat the last generation of Ti and/or Titan cards by a considerable margin.
This was out of the ordinary in a very positive way, therefore a game changer.