that's not what you are paying for.
you are paying for a digital drafting table.
As mentioned in another thread, purchasing the lcd panel itself ala-carte would cost more than the entire unit.
Except that you are paying for it. If it costs money (which is does) and you pay (which you do) then you are very much paying for it. And that's the problem. Not only are the 9 series GPUs a generation behind, the shift to the Pascal architecture delivers previous gen. performance for literally half the price (see GTX 970 vs. 1060).
Maybe the thing you want to pay for is the screen, but there's no avoiding the outdated GPU tax that you have to pay to get it.
Or even an RX480. It could have had 8GB of fast VRAM for less than $300.
Re:MacBook Pro
by imtringued on Friday October 28, 2016 @03:10AM
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You don't even need the desktop 980 to compete with the laptop 980M. The 1060 beats it with a significant gap.
Re:MacBook Pro
by lloyd-christmas on Friday October 28, 2016 @02:43PM
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Yeah, but my point was that if they were too far along with old tech, there were still drastically better pre-existing options for a product that isn't really mobile.
Not even just that, it's the last gen mobile cards, which means you have to spend 4.2k just to have 4GB of VRAM on something that, at the end of the day, is really a desktop. the 980 desktop version is ~$600 with 6GB VRAM.