Exactly . and I think in some cases , they alienate their friends too . <| sep |> Crossed my mind but figured it ' d get downvoted . <| sep |> Did you read what I said ? I said his lyricism now isn ' t better than it has been back in his prime years . <| sep |> Should be expedited by her confession . <| sep |> Currently the Fury X is 1 ~ 2 % faster than the 980 ti overall it was at launch about 7 % slower overall AMD seems to be able to continually squeeze cards for more and more performance . The 290 X was at launch slower than the 780 ti . Its now about 15 % faster and handily beats the GTX 970 . At any rate Nvidia releases drivers with optimized code for the benchmarking applications . To me , thats cheating and its a little sad . I would rather win in real world applications .