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Shaders dont take up alot of space in themselves Its all the other things, which the 104 seems to have little of

Me too

I wonder whatll happen if a layer of SW is removed for gpgpu?

The rest is obviously history. MS shifted their goals seeing this

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ptaylor/archive/2007/03/03/optimized-for-vista-does-not-mean-dx10.aspx Given the state of the NV drivers for the G80 and that ATI hasn’t released their hw yet; it’s hard to see how this is really a bad plan. We really want to see final ATI hw and production quality NV...

It worked in the past, with lil competition If the competition shows great improvement over their last gen, and comes close or surpasses nVidia, it doesnt look as good

nVidia needs a new node Not having one hurts them Add tesselation improvements seen in the 6xxx series, many of those numbers change, just using a 6870 xfire setup, where it scales better plus tesselation perf is greatly improved As always, from whatever vendor, take with salt, as its...

More of the same No new node, no nice perf increases

So, youre saying nVidia is going to have no fixed function Tessellator at all, and itll all be done thru shaders? I know the interpolation is being done inside the ATI shader cores, but still has a fixed function unit AFAIK, so nVidia may just forego all fixed function? Like using the fixed...

Thing is, nVidia doesnt have a tesselator in their shrink, nor can anyone at this point consider what other costs die size wise DX11 will need, besides the tessellator

The 3870x2 had faster clocks fewer shaders, so if the 5870 has as many shaders and faster clocks and memory, it should outdo the 4870x2

Sure, and then the refresh would be the 5895, or the 5990. Point is, top card is top card. Not high perf, but high end

According to sampsa kurri, itll be 299$ US http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1329655&postcount=2207 Also, it takes time to make new drivers, and actually have enough cards to cover whatever brackets theyre releasing into, the chips, and then the partners, and then shipping them out...

Not sure its been posted in this thread or not, but 299$ US looks to be the 5870 price http://www.powercolor.com/Global/NewsInfo.asp?id=701

Not sure if this has been mentioned or not, but the 5870 is supposed to idle at 30 watts, or almost half that of the 4870