FERMI Benchmarked?

[trinibwoy]

The architecture is indeed an unknown variable in this game called graphic-card-industry. Still, seeing and believing NVIDIA thinks the future is HPC I'm not all that optimistic about Fermi's gaming performance. Who knows how many transistors are there for solely for HPC and GPGPU?

That's key IMO. In GT200 it was pretty clear that the DP support and shared memory held little benefit for graphics. They might have stored a few interpolation and/or texturing inputs in shared memory but nothing that they couldnt have done with a bigger register file. In Fermi however things have been changed up so much that it's not clear what, if anything, could benefit graphics too. It could be nothing like GT200 or they could use the new cache hierarchy and larger shared memory pool to benefit graphics in interesting ways. And of course we still know nothing of the fixed function setup, texturing and blending stages.