Quote Originally Posted by weston View Post
lol I have heard these exact arguments about the R600 when it first came out. Easily add 20%? It might happen, but not easily. You act like drivers are somehow as magical as steve jobs' iPad
I don't know about ATI, but this is fairly routine with Nvidia.

The G200's release drivers were the 170xx, but it wasn't until the 180xx drivers that the architecture received it's first significant boost....to the tune of 10 > 15%.. Of course the recent 190xx drivers added even more, so all in all I'd say my GTX 285 is about 20% faster on average right now than it was on release day.

And remember that the G200 isn't as radical a change in architecture as Fermi is..