The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

[weston]

pheew, what a post ^^

Oh man, that was a good post! I read the whole thing, and I totally agree. $600 for a card that's 30% faster than the 5870 would be a good price, and with any kind of decent yield, it will be there. nVidia might have to settle for small margins with the first series of fermi based cards, but they will sell ok -as long as they perform 20% or more faster than the 5870. I'm sure there will be benchmarks and games where the difference is 50% or more, and there will be games where ATI actually outperforms it.

The only thing i would argue is that ATI is better at getting good yields than nVidia, so even with the same defect rate, just based on the GPU design, ATI will have a bigger gap than you figured - just a small detail If nVidia can get to 50% yield, that would help a lot though!

--Don't forget though, ATI is allegedly prepping an optimized 5870 with higher speeds, much like the 4890 from the 4870. This will be ~15-20% faster than the 5870 and fermi will need to compete with that card, not just the current model.