the 470 will be wicked I am sure, but 480 will prolly max hardware boints and they better be good for globals or nV will have a serious fail on their hands

one thing to be late but if they are slower than 5870's ATI will hold all the cards and could delay the launch of the 5890 .....

why release it if they don't have to .... they can milk the market out with the designer 5870's AK Lightning and such


Hoping for the best

They dont have to beat the 5870.. they just have to be made by nVidia and everyone will buy them up and make a ton of subbmissions with them :) Boints are boints right? I am sure you will still get lots of Globs with them

You will only get globals if they are faster than the 5870s

Or if you skipped the 5870 to wait for them

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-g...aled/8635.html

Only 5-10% better then the 5870, and $500+ inflaition.

Now the real question.. will this drive the prices of the 280/285/295 to something guys like me can afford???

The 5-10% estimate was back in November... i'm quite sure they've improved performance since then.

That link was posted yesterday, and they said their internal testing is only 5-10% better. And from everything else we've seen lately, that seems to be the norm.

Well as usual it will boil down to clockability and luck of the draw

So they squeezed out a win?

No, you don't understand. I've been hearing that internally nvidia had achieved such speeds back in NOVEMBER. So for it to remain 5-10% either means that its not true... or they knew the maximum performance of fermi back in november. Either way, still from november. :D