Didn't know JHH was a user of this forum...
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I need one of these (GTX 470) :D
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april 6th
holy (there should be a 4x :banana: button) 295w TDP? and only 5-10% better than 5870? along with higher price tag?
forget it, you'll probably save enough on your energy bills with the 5870 to buy another (over a few years of course, no more than 10 though)
april 6th because it's my birthday
You make it seem like it's impossible, when it's already happened before. :rolleyes:
I gave a specific example even. Any long time buyer of Nvidia cards will remember when the Geforce 3 series first came out, it was barely faster than the Geforce 2 series that it was replacing.....until Nvidia released the new Detonator 20xx drivers that boosted performance by an average of 20 to 30%, and up to 40% and 50% in some cases..
So yes, it can happen. Driver optimizations can make a huge difference in performance, especially if the architecture is radically different from the previous generation; which Fermi happens to be.
I don't know. Nvidia is a master of squeezing performance out of their cards with drivers..
Even the G200 got some nice performance increases from driver optimizations, and it had way more similarities to the G80 and G90 cards, than Fermi will have to the G200..
When I first bought my GTX 285, it was using the 17xxx drivers. After Nvidia released the 18xxx drivers, I noticed a significant improvement in performance in a lot of games, to the tune of 15% or so..
These latest 19xxx are also very good, but the improvements are more specific than across the board..