Quote Originally Posted by safan80 View Post
It's already is not worth the wait. How many refreshes have they done lately? Anybody who is smart will get an ATI card this time around and wait for a Fermi refresh. Nvidia's attitude has been annoying lately: no Dx 10.1 support and no Dx11 support. The only thing Nvidia has done lately was the G80 and that was back in 06. It's been 3 years and Fermi is late and I would be shocked if they could release for sale by the end of January.
Games performance is mostly dependant on single precision, while Nvidia PR is claiming "fastest in the industry" (insert carefully selected double precision benchmark here).

So if youre waiting to compress movies a bit faster and overpay for non-existing GPGPU consumer programs - Fermi will be your card. Everyone else should go for ATI and you know what?

RV870 has also impressive double precision and crushes Fermi on single precision where most gaming performance comes from.


The whole situation reminds me of Core vs Phenom I. While Phenom had superior FP performance, did we see that in games? Again im mentioning the word gaming, since Nvidia seems to have forgotten about that...