Quote Originally Posted by Sushi Warrior View Post
You know, it does make you feel good to see things that agree with your opinion (studies have shown this) so if you are pre-dispositioned towards Nvidia it physically (well, mentally I guess) makes you genuinely feel good to see benchmarks/reviews saying Fermi is better. You don't even have to be a fanboi, you just need to have some hope/want for Fermi to perform well.

And most of these leaks are not matching up, all I can really say is wait just a day or two.

Sky said that he was going to check whether or not the NDA expires at 6PM on the 26th or just on the 26th... possibly some down-under reviews ahead of time?
Even though psychology is important, GeForce Fermi performance expectations are mostly based on facts.

GTX480 compared to HD5870 has
250W vs 188W Power draw
2800 vs 2100 million Transistors
700 vs 850 MHz Graphics Clock
1401 vs 850 MHz Processor Clock
1536 vs 1024 MB GDDR5 Memory
GTX480 is 6 months late.

The most important factor is power draw.
GeForce GTX 480 needs 33% more power at least (maybe even more - according to nApoleon).
So most ppl would expect 33% better performance to justify the increased power consumption (along with room temperature and noise increase).

I would justify to purchase GeForce GTX480 in case
- most of the games I play have 33% better performance/quality than HD5870 at my screen resolution
- the performance boost turns some unplayable games to playable
- I want some special capabilities like 3D vision, GPGPU etc.
- the price is right (about 33% more expensive)