Quote Originally Posted by 570091D View Post
[rumor]i am hearing 2.4x increase over gtx280 performance[/rumor]. and while nvidia have added a lot of fp performance, why would that hurt gaming performance? it might take up extra room on the die and consume a bit more power, but i don't understand how it would hurt gaming performance.
Exactly. People are being very thick with regards to the GT300. For example, consider this excerpt from Ars Technica:
But Fermi marks the point at which NVIDIA has officially begin making its discrete GPU tradeoffs favor the HPC market at the expense of gamers. ... and quite possibly leaving the single-chip gaming GPU crown in the hands of AMD's more specialized Evergreen this time around.
Seriously? Who is writing this garbage? GT300 will be at least as fast as the GT200 architecture with the SPs increased by 2.13x in games. However, in reality, it will be a bit faster due to the efficiency of the shaders being increased.

While it is true a number of the HPC tailored features won't necessarily benefit game performance very much, they also will not hurt performance in any way.

Regardless, when the GTX380 is finally released, all this garbage information will be laid to rest.