Quote Originally Posted by Chickenfeed View Post
This stayment may be somewhat close to the truth... in current titles. As newer engines and upcomming games using liberal tesselation come about, I fully epect the 480 to pull ahead of the 5870/GTX295 by a fair margin. However where launch titles are concerened and past games, I don't think it will have much of a lead if at all. All this said, I am treating GF100 as a long(er) term invesment, not simply a day 1 upgrade. Nvidia are playing the same card AMD has in the past ( designing a gpu with more shader power vs texture power ; tradtionally they've gone for a more texture heavy approach ) Hopefully it turns out well for everyone.

I personally expect to see the 480 launch at $549 USD. As far as what vendors will actually charge for them intially... who the hell knows
If you look at things that way, then perhaps its better to start looking at Fermi as a competitor to 6800 series? Since they will only be about half a generation apart and both completely new architectures.

If Fermi only considerably beats 5800 series in tesselated DX11 games , then a "smart" investor in future technology would definitely wait for the 6800 series to make his decision.