Quote Originally Posted by Behemot View Post
If you say Fermi is completely new, than you must say Evergreen is completely new architeture, too. AMD did the major changes with RV7x0 generation (memory hub and other stuff), NVIDIA with GF10x (cache and other stuff).
Not at all. RV870 is far more closely related to the RV770 (and hence R600) than Fermi is to GT200 (G80).

Quote Originally Posted by zerazax View Post
It really is ironic. R600 was late, hot, unoptimized, slow, etc. - just about everything possible that could have gone wrong, went wrong. People forget... at its release, people were talking about AMD/ATIs bankruptcy, which was a real possibility.
The only similarities Fermi shares with R600 is that it is hot, power hungry and ~6 months late. The fatal blow to the R600 was that when compared to the competition (G80), it was woefully underpowered and slow, and in fact, the X1900 cards actually outperformed it in certain circumstances when AA was enabled.

That is not the case for Fermi. Yes it's hot, power hungry and late, but it at least maintains the title of fastest single GPU, a big differentiation from R600. Further, AMD was and still is far closer to bankruptcy than Nvidia.