The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[Chickenfeed]

Well the funny thing is that not only is it hot and uses way too much power but also the picture quality is still under the 5870. From Anadtech

Still to this date the AF on the evergreen cards causes a bigger performance hit than any other line has if I am not mistaken. Its not huge but bigger than what Id call ideal. Im an AF whore though so as a min I like 16af, I'll sooner omit the use of AA before AF but thats me. It is the best AF out (from a purely technical viewpoint ) granted but can I honestly say I notice the difference... not really.

Nvidia did improve their transparency AA however so that fact shouldn't be left out. Without a truely indepth article focusing on image quality alone (remember those nice G80 reviews that did this?), the verdict is still out on this I'd think.

As far as the whole power thing, it is quite odd. My understanding is due to the shader design (320shaders each with 4 simple shaders), it is very difficult to fully tax AMDs design (without very explicit programing from what I've heard) so in turn very unrealistic to reach their claimed TDP (reviews often have the 5870 well under its 188TDP ) Now Nvida on the other hand have a design which appears to actually reach its claimed TDP...