lol... no... it proves Nvidia is a much more successful company than AMD... But hopefully AMD's new cards will compete with them and give us some options - and drive prices down a bit.
Did you hear that from Hardreset? He'll tell you that a 480 will out-perform the 1080 in 2 years... But in REALITY, mid/low-level AMD cards age no better than Nvidia cards... and the high end cards alas, are non-existent nowadays.
No, the statement I am making is based off my own experience.
As a proud owner of both the gtx780ti and radeon r9 290x, I noticed how badly the radeon card outperforms the geforce card nowadays. Don't even get me started on Doom and DeusEX Mandkind divided, It's just terrible to see how the gtx780ti has lost its advantage in older and newer titles alike.
When the geforce gtx 780ti was released, it held the performance advantage over the r9 290x at nearly 10%. The factory overclocked models increased this advantage to nearly 20%. At launch it was amazing how powerful the geforce card was. There was hardly a single game where the radeon could win. Upon release of the gtx970, the gtx 780ti was still faster albeit slightly. The gtx970 vs r9-290 became a fair battle as those 2 cards were even. As newer games were released nvidia want to not only optimize performance for there newer cards, but they also wanted to push sales as well. So driver enhancements were made only for the gtx900 series going forward.
If you don't believe me, look at the performance review of every game release between 2016 - 2017. You will see that where the once upon a time GTX780ti > GTX970 > R9-290. Now its more like R9-290 = GTX970 >> GTX780ti.
I anticipate radeon r9-290 pulling ahead of the gtx 970 pretty soon and matching the gtx1060 in performance.
I also remember owning a geforce 7950gtx 512mb and a radeon x1900xt 512mb. The 7950gtx was faster until late 2007 when games heavily utilizing shader technology was released. If you go to the crysis performance review, The geforce 7000 series don't stand a chance. This trend continues to where nvidia releases newer cards and quickly forgets about the last generation.
It is only a matter of time before the geforce gtx 1060 pulls further ahead of the gtx 980 but for now they are fairly even still.
In short the reason why I conclude that Nvidia cards don't age well is because in 2014 the gtx780ti was the faster card. Now in 2017 the r9-290x is the faster card.
If I can say one good thing about Nvidia is that they are quite efficient.