New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

[Carfax]

Charlie said they had planned a different card but scrapped it and only had Fermi in reserve so they had to make it fit. And I agree with him, Fermi could not really be nvidia's first choice for the gaming market, they would have known it would be a bastard to make but when you're planning to sell at 5k each it's not a issue.

I think Charlie was talking out of his a$$ if he said that.

Fermi follows the same pattern as previous Nvidia GPUs, in that the Quadro series is practically the same as the consumer GPU, except for different drivers, BIOS and a lot more VRAM.

I have to agree there. AMD's driver team seriously needs to get their act together, especially the stuff that get broke after being fixed before.

You said it, not me