Quote Originally Posted by Behemot View Post
Oh yes, keep repeating. It is closer to RV770, I did not say it isn't, but definitely is far away from R600. If you say so, you mean the gaming side of GPU is the same and in this case it is just right to say the GF100 is same as G80, too. In both architectury, AMD and NVIDIA, is full ton of GPGPU changes from old R600%G80. But who in cares?! You play video encoding? You play Photoshop or what? I'd say 99% play games.

So if the cards are 20% better on average, it'll stay that. No driver-miracles possible. I only hope people will finally end with this "drivers will change everything" BS
RV770 was released 2 years ago, and by all means RV870 is pretty much a shrank + upscaled RV770. So do you think this is the same situation as GF100 vs GT200b?

Drivers won't change everything but I'm pretty sure GTX 480 will see more driver-based performance improvements in the future than HD5870.