Quote Originally Posted by Solus Corvus View Post
What would be the point of discussing it instead of sarcastically beating up strawmen? To explore the topic from a different point of view perhaps? Or do you expect me to play devil's advocate against my own perspective as well?

I dismissed those numbers and I gave my reason why. I can elucidate further if necessary. I'm not even sure why you brought up GTX285 SLI, everyone else was talking about GTX295. And both of those cards are EOL as well as 4890.

You want my optimistic perspective? The most (realistically) optimistic performance figures I have heard for Fermi are 40% faster then evergreen. Let's say that ATI doesn't refresh the 5xxx series either so they have to compete with what they have. If that happens performance would probably, IMO, look something like: 5850 < 5870 ~= GTX360 < GTX380 < 5970 < GTX390
That's basically a redux of last generation. As such it would probably mean some more market share erosion and narrow margins for Nvidia, just like last gen. That's my optimistic view. If you wanted me to say NV would be king of the universe and there would be global peace I'm sorry, I just don't think it's going to happen.
Except, if Fermi is indeed 40% faster than Cypress (which I don't believe is possible) GTX 360 won't be equal to 5870 but will be a lot faster than it, and GTX 380 will be extremely close to 5970, so price points being the same comparatively to the last gen (as in difference between GTX 275/285 and HD4800's), Nvidia will be in an über condition.