Quote Originally Posted by damha View Post
Isn't that what ATI has had in their GPUs for the last two generations??
No Fermi is the first mass market GPU architecture to have:

#1: Parallel geometry setup
#2: Generalized, coherent read/write caching

Both are huge deals because of the engineering effort required and make a lot of things easier to do. Of course it doesn't mean squat if you just care about the fps that comes out the end.