Quote Originally Posted by ***Deimos*** View Post
Fermi = 225W (or 275W)
Not the end of the world!!

Probably while using some special GPGPU applications only.

Despite all the nay-saying, it IS a FIXABLE problem. Just look at progress G92 made just by switching PCB, or reduced power on higher clocked HD4890.

Charlie is just being ultra-paranoid. Architecture is no more broken than it was in X2900XT - and despite power management and Anti-aliasing bugs, that card still got great performance in many games, and was the basis for HD48xx.

In the end, when it launches, (just as the HD5xxx) the hype will evaporate to reveal pretty typical average looking video cards with double horsepower of old generation.
If it comes out like the 2900XT that is horrible for the short term though. They were hyping it to be another 8800GTX, so if comes in at anything less than 30% over the 5870 it's a short term failure in my mind. In the long run, it's yet to be seen how the architecture will work, the speculation on the first series is already grasping at straws so how can you guess the long term viability of it?

I think the hype has gotten more and more negative the more we know about it, so a typical card, it is now. No typical card has gotten thousands of posts a month before it's launch.