Someone said it best a couple pages back, but I admire fermi much more (even if it performs similarly to 5870) than the 5xxx series.


What games REALLY need the horsepower this brings? Only multi-monitor displays with massive resolutions with heaps of AA/AF you won't notice.

While its not 'shown' (demonstrated with independent reviews) it appears that fermi will dominate in "next gen" areas (tessalation, geometry, particle simulation...).

so basically 5870 = fermi in current/old games but fermi > 5870 in next gen games (of course next gen means non console remakes so this is all moot by the time we get non-consolized games [never?] much better hardware will be out)


I think fermi will serve nvidia incredibly well as if it is indeed "future proofing itself" then tweaks to that and improvements on classic rasterization will just make the architecture best of both worlds. I highly suspect 6xxx from AMD will turn out to be extremely similar to fermi in design principle (maybe not size but the way it handles information)