The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[prava]

Not really. Nvidia fanboys have taught us they'll buy anything even if it's overpriced. The GTX470 comes to mind. Same MSRP as the 5870, yet performs less and people are still willing to jump all over it.

You can't stop the green fanboys.

You know, its not about being a fanboy...but personal preference. One faces many questions...but the answers doesn't have to be rational, although it may seem absurd.
Besides, there are many things numbers doesn't tell us about a product: such as personal experience. NVIDIA is more expensive than ATI at the same performance...but they give you more (cuda, physx, 3d, etc). Is that more worth it? That depends exclusively on you.
What I can tell you is that there are some things that just don't work well with ATI, like 120hz, screen flickering like using dual screens and such things. Yea, its unlikely, but 1+1 = 2...and internet is fully plagued of those errors...and they piss people off, seriously. I can imagine how has one to feel when he buys a 120hz TFT screen not to work on his newly come DX11 card

i do like this kind of work, but think he can give us something like 4870x2 vs 5870. so we can see how it does vs doubling the old card (i suck at nvidia specs so i dont know what half of 480 would be stats wise)

Well, basically GTX480 is a doubled GTX285 (I don't know about rops) except the bandwith. 240 vs 480SP and 675 vs 700mhz core.