skyhtml, i dont think there are people here who hope that prices do NOT go down... i think everybody is hoping for lower prices, even people who bought a 5870 not too long ago...

Quote Originally Posted by RaZz! View Post
in my opinion we shouldn't put much weight on current performance figures anyways. there are so many factors that could lead to bad performance, we don't even know the test setups etc...

we've been waiting so long for fermi to surface so that, now, it doesn't matter if we wait yet another week (or two, or three... )
yeah but all the benchmark numbers are in the same ballpark, and im sure they are on different setups, but they are all about the same... the picture i got is that except for crysis the 470 will realistically let you play games at the same res with the same settings the 5870 does, but it will cost more, run hotter and be in worse supply.

for enthusiast it should be interesting depending on how hot it runs and how high it clocks on ln2... then again 5870s clock to 1200+ on ln2 which is almost 50%... i think the only interesting card will be the 480, but the lack of benchmarks and even pictures of those cards is worrisome... there was only one pic of a 480 and that was a2... everything else as 470 and a3 right?

Quote Originally Posted by Andi64 View Post
With HD5830, ATi killed half of the ROPs inside an entire ROPs cluster, so they can still use the MC related to that cluster.
oh interesting...
can nvidia do that as well?
man its a shame that there are no unlocked gpus like that huh?
id love to play around with different clock dividers on the gpu domains and enable and disable some blocks here and there and see how it scales...