Quote Originally Posted by annihilat0r View Post
2900XT was slower than G80 but was priced very good, about 8800GTS 640mb I believe, and was a good alternative to it in a number of ways.

GTX 480 might be the "fastest single GPU", but it's by no means the fastest card. It's just a (good) alternative to the 2nd fastest card, like 2900XT was.

There'll definitely be a dual GPU version but how, without a die shrink, I can't understand. It looks like even a B1 revision (which won't happen, according to some people) and increased yields won't allow a <300w dual Fermi. Maybe they'll scratch the 300w limit. Heck, it looks like they've gone over it with the 480 sp single GPU version!

R600 sucked but the architecture proved to be upwards scalable. It appears that Fermi design is downwards scalable (=GF104 and 108 coming), so by logic it should also be upwards scalable And that should make some great chips after node shrinks.
IMO Fermi's scalability potential is upwards, not downwards.

We'll see soon, but considering the current ROPs are pretty inefficient (as you can see here Fermi has less fillrate than GTX285), don't expect the GTS 450 to handle 2560, and even in 1920 you might see bad omens.

Junpier aka HD5770 can possibly outclass/come near something more than double its size. But again this time GF104 has more bandwidth- bus width is 2x, not 1.5x. 5850 of the same size? Pretty impossible to beat.


Unless it's 1024*768. Yep, the perfect card for those poor nVidia kids using CRTs from 2000.