The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[Solus Corvus]

If a fully fledged Fermi card hit the target clocks it would probably match or even beat the HD 5970, so I don't think anyone was wrong.

Also, you don't really need to match the performance of a dual GPU card, because even slightly slower single GPU card is always better.

I was basing my estimates on a full 512 shader gpu at rumored target clocks. If GTX480 is indeed cut down or with significantly lower clocks then I'd estimate even lower. As for beating a 5970, you can believe that if you like but I doubt it. Even Nvidia's estimates, with full shaders and target clocks, was 40% faster then 5870. That's not enough to match 5970.

About the whole dual GPU vs single GPU thing, that's your preference not mine. Don't project your preferences on the whole gpu buying community. Thanks.

Which card are we talking about here though? The 480SP or 512SP version? From what I've read there seems to be a lot of confusion about the actual specs of the GTX 480. If it's the 480SP version that is running ~15% up on the 5870, I'd say Nvidia is in good shape depending on power draw.

I was estimating based on a full shader card. Less shaders would equal lower estimates.