Quote Originally Posted by Jamesrt2004 View Post
mate it wont beat it by 60% i promise you.

I kno you want them to do well for w/e reasons.. but seriously dont over-hype will end up being dissapointed.. theres a reason nvidia isnt going on about game performance and thats got me worried (and should do to you also.)
60% was relative to a gtx 285 and it was to get zalbard to understand my point about theoretical performance.

review websites skew their results by adding a lot of AA and AF. its not an apples to apples comparison if you ask me. we need a gpu benchmark similar to cinebench. all a 5870 can do is apply more AA to current games and that doesnt show the true power of the card,just the ROP's. i dont think games will benefit that much from new cards until crysis2 or next consoles. a 5870 makes a xbox 360 look like a wii. you basically have to put up with crappy textures and high fps for a while.
just they keep going on about all this stupid precision stuff theyve improved.. its a graphics card.. people want it for games.. im sorry thats the market they cater for.. going off trying to do a different thing is a bit stupid.. sure by all means go for physx.. thats fine.. just I believe they are forgetting the core market... which is lame....

completley agree seeming there market is gamers.. im not sure people are like WOW I WANT THAT ... just to encode a movie in 10 mins as apposed to 20 .. im sorry people may use it and be like oh this is cool... but its hardly a defining feature come on nvidia.. lets see something good from you again like the 8 series cut the crap with this double floating point performance poop..
the market for gpu computing is estimated to be 50% of the desktop market. dont ask why ask why not. this is a link to cuda home page and all of its applications. its more than just encoding. there are a lot of real world uses for CUDA. just not at the desktop yet. in the future when we are ray tracing, maybe. fermi is a gpgpu with fixed function graphics abilities just like all dx10 gpu's. i dont see why this would affect d3d performance.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html#