Quote Originally Posted by Coldon View Post
I never said they were perfect did i? 5%? strange how the new ATI drivers gave a good ~10% increase across the board for an old architecture. You could then argue as to why these improvements weren't in the drivers at release since its an old architecture, they have technically had years to perfect and tweak it, and yet the launch drivers for the 5870s were horrendous.

This is a completely new architecture, and you expect them to have drivers optimized in 6 months?! how long did it take for the g80 drivers to get tweaked and optimized, the move to USM/USA needed a lot of driver tweaks and optimization. The same can be said here as well, though not to such a great extent as the g70 -> g80 change over.

I'm starting to feel that you are just arguing and disagreeing for the sake of disagreeing and voicing your opinion. Some people might like larger displays simply cause they are older and their eyes get tired staring at smaller displays, or they prefer sitting further back from their screens. Yeh, SLI/crossfire is not a great gaming experience but they can simply turn off some eye candy on a single GPU and still have excellent framerates. High levels of AA at such a high resolution is not as essential as it is at lets say 1680x1050.
+ 1 to both your points.

Fermi has inconsistent performance across the board. Games the old architecture was good at perform comparatively bad on fermi. Its a new architecture and whatever people may say. 197.xx still is primarily focused in bringing higher performance pre fermi architecture. 58xx driver optimizations apply to 4xxx because the architecture are super similar and the drivers should be super similar. 5% is worse than even charlie would suspect even.

Additionally size and resolution matter. Bigger size needs higher resolution to look good. If gameplay framerates were everything, eyefinity would be crap because eyefinity penalizes framerates even more and in addition has driver issues. More power to fuel higher resolutions is one of the fundamental reason why videocards have to get more powerful.