Quote Originally Posted by labs23 View Post
If your sig is gonna be right, then I might be back askin myself again when can I have my first DX11 videocard.
I thought might have one by April-May TBH, ATI or nVidia no preference there, as long as it wont cost me >390$, currency considered since I'm not from the US.

Epic fail n very effn sad if true, have to wait 3 more days though.

Well at the moment theres not a "real" DX11 game yet, so if you have yourself between a GTX295 - GTX 260 or ATi 4870X2 - 4870, theres no need to jump the bandwagon in my opinion, since most games we getting are crap ports thanks to consoles. But if you're planning to jump the boat I would consider a ATi over Nvidia right now (maybe this could change after friday but my hopes are really low).

ATi has some advantages over Fermi right now which are:

Pros

  • Low consumption
  • Better temperatures
  • Cost less (though they are a bit overpriced)
  • Eyfinity capable with ONE card

Cons
  • Driver Team sucks (although they are making some progress with 10.2 & 10.3)
  • Size (5870 & 5970 size is ridiculous imo)



Fermi (Based of what we seen so far)

Pros

  • Size (they have the same size of past gen or even smaller)
  • "Better" performance than ATi offerings (not by much though)
  • Nice drivers support team


Cons

  • Power consumption
  • Temperatures
  • Vision Surround requires SLI
  • Price (they are not bad for previous products releases but still more than competition)


If Fermi ends up to be a flop is nvidia and their "Big GPU chip is the way" bull theory fault, the evidence is more than clear, I even think that the integration CPUGPU has to do with this, why not make TESLA products with this feature since the people who buy these kind of products are the ones that are going to benefit for such features, not the gaming crowd. I remember posting that I was smelling the fermi was going to be the new R600 and some claimed I was pessimistic, but every time news about fermi surfaces has more negatives things than positive...