The Fermi Thread - Part 3

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Apparently FarCry 2 and HAWX use a lot of triangles, which Fermi is good at, which is the reason for their significant leads

The performance delta of Fermi is astonishing though... the 480 goes from being 10% below a 5870 to 50% above depending on the game. It "averages" out to 10-20% range depending on settings (if you take out the synthetic benchmarks), but I don't think we've ever seen a card have THAT big of a gap between performance values over a card, i.e. most cards might be 10-30% faster than a previous card, not -10 to 50% for example.

Incredibly high power consumption and temperature. Even if you don't care about power consumption, you will care about temperature.

This is true. My friend had to RMA his GTX280 after a few months... twice! (thank god EVGA is literally next door to us)

He picked up the GTX 285 later and the lower heat has prolonged his card life a lot

I agree. I don't care a second for crysis though,

Ironically, that's what most Nvidia fans cared about.... but now it doesn't matter

Talk about role reversals