A Semi-accurate Look into Fermi

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Regarding Fermi now, from the start I have personally said that given presumed yields, diesize, scalability and production cost, fermi must deliver 40%+ higher than evergreen performance in games to have a good run. From the looks of it, it might just get that (and more). Thats good for all consumers, since both companies will have almost equal perf/$ ratios, and the resulting price competition will benefit all.

Lets hope that the greens match that goal, it would be a very interesting 6months ahead.

I'd also like to see nvidia try to address the actual moneymakers (ie the mainstream and lower performance market segments).

Let's break this down because you make some good points. First of all, not much is publicly known about how well the Fermi architecture will scale when it comes to anything but the extreme high end. That is to say that it may take a lot of doing for NVIDIA to adapt it to lower end, more mainstream cards. NVIDIA's past issues with scalability is one of the many reasons why we are only now seeing lower-end 200 series cards. ATI on the other hand is an expert on scalability as is evidenced by the quick succession of 5000-series releases. Only time will tell what happens when the Fermi architecture gets scaled down but one thing is clear: ATI has shown that NVIDIA can't continue to use G80 derivatives if they hope to compete in the sub-$200 price category.

from info I got it still cant make 500mhz .

False. And no, I won't elaborate.

my computer desk isn't big enough for 3 monitors

3x 17"