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Fermi NDA ends today

I'll be waiting for quite a while before I upgrade my graphics card again tbh, as I've just scooped up another GTX280 for some SLi action, but I am still looking forward to seeing what these things can do, I'll probably upgrade later on in the year though, hopefully by then prices will be considerably less...
 
TBH I don't give two hoots about Specs - I'm more interested in performance/heat/power/price ratio

No point in having large numbers of specs if the performance is not great for the price or the power you have to put in and the thing has to be cooled by cryogenic cooling.
 
I'd imagine we will also get some performance figures as well as specs ennogs.

Though they will probably only be games that have been optimized to run well on nVidia cards.
 
Jokester said:
The basic jist of it is that Fermi will be twice as fast as the 285GTX which is pretty much as expected.
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holy **** :eek:

If the 5850 if basically the same speed as the 285 what should I do? (ordered one yesterday) ... or will they be in a completely different price bracket and so does not matter anyways?
 
Fermi won't be available to buy for awhile so prolly stick with the 5850 then sell it to fund upgrade if thats what you want to do when Fermi comes out.
 
Jokester said:
The basic jist of it is that Fermi will be twice as fast as the 285GTX which is pretty much as expected.
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Twice the performance would be WELL ahead of expected performance. A 5870 is about 45% better than a 4890, while the 5970 is only ~30% better than a 4870x2. If Nvidia pull out a 100% increase then AMD will be completely forced out of the high end, and their architecture will be dead in the water.
 
it wasnt long ago that ati owners kept claiming that a single card from a new generation can never beat the top dual gpu from the previous generation. of course just to justify the poor performance of the 5870
 
Just so we can quote you guys for future reference, you are publicly stating you think the new single card high end from nvidia will be faster than the 295 :p
 
I didn't expect the 5870 to beat the 295 but imo it did fairly well against it in benchmarks. So as a single gpu offering it is very powerful, beating the 4870X2 in a number of tests, too. (This was before any driver updates as well)
 
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Owenb said:
Twice the performance would be WELL ahead of expected performance. A 5870 is about 45% better than a 4890, while the 5970 is only ~30% better than a 4870x2. If Nvidia pull out a 100% increase then AMD will be completely forced out of the high end, and their architecture will be dead in the water.
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Not if the Nvidia cards cost more than 100% of the ATI cards. Why do you think the 4870 sold so well even when Nvidia had the 280 / 285?
 
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