The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[Carfax]

Very very very VERY dissapointing. If it really has 480 shaders then my interest in buying these cards just took a serious nose dive. 3 spins and they cant even get all the shaders to work? Why in the world would I drop $500 for a broken card, the 470 looks better and better now especially if it holds to its $350 price tag.

Seriously, with all the erroneous info floating, I would be hesitant to take any of this as fact.. The Galaxy website showed the GTX 480 having 512sp after all.

And the speculation about the GTX 470/480 only being 5-10% faster than the HD 5850/5870 should be taken with a healthy dose of salt..

Just wait for the launch date.

[Sentential]

Seriously, with all the erroneous info floating, I would be hesitant to take any of this as fact.. The Galaxy website showed the GTX 480 having 512sp after all.

And the speculation about the GTX 470/480 only being 5-10% faster than the HD 5850/5870 should be taken with a healthy dose of salt..

Just wait for the launch date.

I would agree wholly however what I am concerned by is the long-term rammifactions of these chips. If they are broken now how will their long term reliability going to be 1 year or even 2 years after purchase? People's 285GTXs are dropping left and right for thermal related bump issues and there weren't nearly as many respins required for that silicon to be deemed acceptable. How are we to believe that this given how many respins it took; that this round going to be any better. This chip just feels like all kinds of "half-assed" and Im not sure how comfortable I feel buying either of these cards.

If ATi drops the price of the HD5870 down to the $300-350 I am likely to jump ship; *especially* if Thuban only works on an AMD chipset which by all accounts could happen.