Originally Posted by
annihilat0r
A GTX 480 that uses 280W, is 5% faster than HD5870, is 550mm2, is 448 SP's (later he reverted to 512), idles at 70C, has around 600mhz clockspeeds.
Will be paper launch, 3.000 to 8.000 cards will be available at launch, you are not going to be able to buy one. Wide availability will be much, much later (Q4 2010. He said Q4 2011 but he was being sarcastic.) The chip is hot, huge, broken and unmanufacturable.
Those are Charlie's claims. Let's wait some time and see how many of those claims were correct. As far as I can remember, the only thing that he was correct about Fermi was the launch date up to now.