The GT300/Fermi Thread

[FischOderAal]

So, is anyone getting a firm over Fermi?
From what I have read and hints that have been dropped, this is potentially going to be one amazing GPU.

Depends if this:

Performance is likely to be ~20-25% faster than HD 5870...

... doesn't cost way more than 20-25 percent more energy or Dollars/Euro/whatever. I will wait and see

nVidia have hit the proverbial nail on the head with this one, think of it as more of a G80 than a FX.

Or something in between. Not as bad as an FX but not as astonishing as G80 either. Solid performance like G200.

All in all I feel rather confident that my expectations are fulfilled: we get the exact same scenario as before: G300 is faster than RV870 by a good amount, but also hotter and more expensive.

What does this remind me of? RV770 and G200 of course, but this time NVIDIA is "late" (as in, later as the competitor) to the market. Big green was lucky TSMC effed up their 40 nm-process so that AMD couldn't fullfill the demand.

Personally, i have to buy it as my 280 GTX is blowing up and i refuse to go ATI as i had a X800XT P.E on pre-order for 8 months, then being told it's discontinued..

If you had said "I had four ATI cards and all went shotgun so I won't buy one of their cards again", I would not argue. But this, no offense, is no reasonable reason to avoid a manufacturer.