The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

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why should nvidia sell it for such a low price if it performs as well as a 5970 or better?

performance.. we dont know.
Cost - 3B Tran@40nm - definitely very high.

I'm betting $600. Unless nVidia pulls a Sony - inlude a blu-ray, and make up loss by selling games LOL

Yeah right At first everyone said "wait until Fermi is there before buying HD5k" and now you say "wait until HD6k is there before buying Fermi"? Jesus You should buy your freaking GFX whenever you need it, not when your glass globe tells you to.

Yeah my glass globe has been pretty smelly recently.. maybe its the floating goldfish.
I bought DX10 AFTER Crysis launched.. expect to do the same with DX11 when BadCompany2 and Crysis2 arrive.

i think ati could have sold quite some additional 5800 cards if they would have reduced the price 50-100$ .....

#cards @ 400 x profit(400) > #cards @ 300 x profit(300).
ie COST=200.. 100 x $200 = Y x $100,
Y = 200. (TWICE as many as 100)
Basically, I'm sure AMD marketing is smart enough to do the math, and probably came up that they wouldn't find twice as many gamer consumers if they lowered the price.

Exactly, although ATI had the right idea by first testing out 40nm on the RV740 and going for a smaller design, which made their transition much smoother (relatively)

This goes back to 55nm RV670. AMD almost (RV630) skipped 65nm altogether. Likewise AMD ahead on implementing Tesselation, Vista/Win7 driver, GDDR5, 40nm, AVC/VC1 acceleration, DisplayPort... its a long list. l)