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I guess I shouldnt post in this thread as everything I say seems to piss SOMEONE off. Anyway remember ATI had thier 2900 before its 3xxx series. It looks as if Nvidia is just laying the ground work for something much better in the next two years.

Anyway as a GPU fan I cannot wait to see what this thing can do. Its fun to make fun of Nvidia but who knows how this puppy will do. It could be epic for all we know.
 

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If the specs and performance are to be believed then I think the old saying 'You snooze, you lose' comes to mind. :shadedshu
 
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Well, that's the way it goes. Nvidia enjoyed their time on the top, and now the crown's passed to ATI/AMD.

3-4 years from now, the GTX 600 series will come out, and will take it back.

Now do you see why a lack of competition is bad? :p Nvidia's cards were the fastest for so long, that they apparently skimped on R&D and got left behind.

Failure of proper R&D is not a result of lack of competition. Strangely high prices, skewed price/performance ratio, lack of advertisement, all definately. Lack of R&D is just them being cheap dicks.

ATI was not exactly non-existent and has taken the performance crown from them before on several occasions in the past few years. This is just a failure on Nvidia's part through and through.
 

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fact of failing chips in the G92, Rebagging of the 8800 series, failure of the Mobility parts, and now the longest delay of Nvs G100 is all cause of NV to have big migraines.
 
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I think fermi will earn its place in history alongside FX 5800 Ultra and R600 (2900xt) as a hot, power hungry and pricy (price/performance wise) card... I could even mention Voodoo5 6000 but it was never released officially.
Also all the cards mentioned above were released after delays... except Voodoo ofcourse
 
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Sad. The card has not even been released yet, and we are all going, "Sorry Green Team, maybe next time." I find it quite funny actually.

Bad Nvidia, bad.
 

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Well if does turn out to be that bad then im going to get another GTX 285 to SLI then.
 
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on two separate cards?

Funny because it's true. Of course, they won't need to if it's able to best the 5970, but I think it's a well-accepted fact that AMD has more than enough room to drop prices on the entire HD5000 series without exception and beat nVidia into the ground. Question is, why would they? Must the same reason Intel doesn't want to do the same to AMD. It's not about anti-trust so much as it is keeping a healthy buffer space so everyone makes money. We'll see some good price cuts over the summer I think, but it's not going to be 50%.
 

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I love how some people say $700 for the Fermi is way too expensive (and it is) but then they say it's so much cheaper to go with a 5970. They're practically the same price. Maybe a $50 difference, but that's about it.
 

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could care less, Im going with 2 5890s when they arrive
 
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can someone post a tl;dr version of all the comments pl0x
say summarized in bullets or the likes

tyvm kthxbye.
 
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I love how some people say $700 for the Fermi is way too expensive (and it is) but then they say it's so much cheaper to go with a 5970. They're practically the same price. Maybe a $50 difference, but that's about it.

If the 470 is expected to fall between the 5850 and 5870, then it is safe to assume the 480 will be above the 5870, but may not reach 5970's performance. If it does not at least match it, $50 is a big deal to pay for a brand name and less performance.

Now lets say the performance is only 5 to 10% better than a 5870, then your gap is more like $225. That is huge for so little a boost.
 
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Remember how good the 4870 was and then NV went 'BAM!!' GTX 280. All they do is punch with a bigger glove.

How could that be when the GTX280 came out a week before the 4870?
 

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Man, I hope those wattage claims aren't true. This thing will be a heat monster if that's the case.
 
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I don't see why anyone would be surprised. It's very common for the new flagship card to trade blows with the dual gpu card of last round, not completely surpass it.
 

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I don't see why anyone would be surprised. It's very common for the new flagship card to trade blows with the dual gpu card of last round, not completely surpass it.

zzzzzz
 

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I DONT MISS THE GTX 275! What im trying to say is I will never own another HOT HOT card .. I hate sweating.
 
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Ok so it was stated the GTX 470 is to have 300watt tdp and performance between HD 5850 and HD 5870. So how in the hell is the GTX 480, with the full 512 CUDA cores, likely higher clocks, going to be within PCIe TDP specifications? and how is it going to soar up to HD 5970 performance when the GTX 470 only slightly crippled, is between the HD 5850 and HD 5870. For the GTX 480 to compete with the HD 5970 it'd have to be a lil more than double the performance of the GTX 470...which obviously isn't possible. The only way it'd be possible is with much higher clocks, but with the GTX 470 at 300TDP already, there's no room for significant clock increases.

EDIT: someone above said no waving of victory flags yet, but how can you not? Nvidia can't take the crown, can't beat ATI in wattage, and MOST of all can't beat them in price as ATI can definitely drop price more than nvidia can. Nvidia is going to beat in all aspects if you truly think about it as i've laid it out. Only way for fermi to be relevant in the gaming arena is for them to sell the GTX 4XX at ridiculously low prices and take the hit, and by low prices i mean low.
 
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Im soory but im gonna LOLs at people who waited for fermi. ATI already learnt the wide memory bus with GDDR5 doesnt work well. Nvidia are like 3 years behind where ATI are now and they are making the same mistakes as ati did with RV600.
 
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I'm going to LOL at people who start bashing each other because of their purchases and loyalty to a corporation.
 

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Im soory but im gonna LOLs at people who waited for fermi. ATI already learnt the wide memory bus with GDDR5 doesnt work well. Nvidia are like 3 years behind where ATI are now and they are making the same mistakes as ati did with RV600.

Your statement about wide memory buses makes no sense whatsoever. GDDR5 works no different with wide buses than it does on narrow ones. More bus width just adds bandwidth. More bandwidth does not hurt. It may not be needed, but it certainly doesn't hurt anything.

Even with these rumors abound, I'm still waiting until fermi releases to see what happens in the market.

I LOL at people that make decisions based on rumors.
 

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http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/18525

We now know that Nvidia will officially announce its GeForce GTX 480 and 470 graphics cards on March 26. Only some of Nvidia's card partners may be at the party, however. DigiTimes has learned from anonymous sources that most of Nvidia's second-tier partners still haven't received "complete reference board designs."

Nvidia reportedly intends to prioritize "first-tier makers or makers that only produce Nvidia cards." As DigiTimes points out, XFX and PNY versions of the upcoming GF100 cards have already shown up for pre-order in the United States, so those partners will presumably be among those receiving preferential treatment. Cards from tier-two manufacturers may not start shipping until April.

On a separate note, DigiTimes writes that "some market watchers" don't see a price war between Nvidia and AMD occurring until after May. At issue are those pre-order listings, which showed price tags of $679.99 for the GeForce GTX 480 and $499.99 for the GeForce GTX 470. AMD only has one card in that price range: the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970, which starts at around $650 and doesn't seem to be very widely available.

If you're waiting for lower-end GF100 derivatives to fight it out with AMD's mainstream Radeon HD 5000-series cards, well, you might want to be patient. When asked about such GPUs recently, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang stated that current-generation GeForces are "fabulous" and will "continue to do quite nicely in the marketplace." He also suggested that mainstream users may not need DirectX 11 cards to begin with, although he did also promise a quick transition to newer products.
 
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Man, I hope those wattage claims aren't true. This thing will be a heat monster if that's the case.

that's why, the chase must have fermi certification, that's have wind tunnel in it :laugh:
 
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Your statement about wide memory buses makes no sense whatsoever. GDDR5 works no different with wide buses than it does on narrow ones. More bus width just adds bandwidth. More bandwidth does not hurt. It may not be needed, but it certainly doesn't hurt anything.

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Yes it does. I remember reading about it. Something about diminishing returns and high power draw required to keep it fed.

Thats why after the R600 debacle(with 512bit bus) ATI moved back to 256bit bus with 3870/4870 and now the very powerful 5870 still has a 256bit memory bus.

If it were that easy or worthwhile ATI would have made the 4870 or the upgraded 4890 with a wider memory bus. They already tried it and it wasnt worth it. Nvidia has been using GDDR3 which benefits from a wider memory bus. On GDDR 5 theres already plenty of bandwidth on a 256 bit bus.

As an analogy its like having 4 X 5970's in a computer. After 2 of them theres not much performance increase if any. So you have a hot and power hungry setup that is inefficient. Just like RV600 was.

I'm not surprised the power draw is as high as they say.
 
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