you guys really think cutting dp perf on retail cards is a big deal?
i havent seen a single really useful cuda or opencl or direct compute app... i mean something everybody or most people will actually benefit from...
and dp perf doesnt matter at all in games... so really, both nvidia and ati could disable dp on their retail cards altogether... i couldnt care less

neliz, so the FC2 numbers were a best case scenario? cause in there fermi was close to a 5970 and notably faster than a 5870.
if the average boost is just 10-30% for the fastest fermi part, then a 5870@1ghz and with 2gb mem will be able to sell for 400$+ easily vs a slightly faster fermi with 1.5gb... so ati can maintain their price point, they just have to up the clocks and increase the memory, both shouldnt hurt their margins much, if at all...

bad news for us consumers :/
price/perf wont improve much if at all in this year...