Quote Originally Posted by flippin_waffles View Post
This shouldn't be a problem with nv's supposed wizzards in writing drivers. Can't have it both ways, either they are or they aren't. Saying nv's drivers are second to none, with all this speculation on poor 4xx performance due to poor drivers seems to me like a dog chasing it's tale.
Not really.

They can have better drivers than AMD and be good at making them. But just recently they've pulled 15 - 20% more performance out of some games. On an Architecture thats extremely similar to the g80 which is 3 years old. Now are you honestly going to tell me that a BRAND SPANKING NEW ARCHITECTURE which has had basically four months of development won't get similar improvements?


Compare the 5870 with release drivers to the drivers now. This arch is really just a cleaned up version of the rv770 (which was based off of 2900 amirite?) and yet they still added a clean 10 - 15% increase across the board. Do you really expect Fermi to not have similar improvements if not MUCH greater improvements in the coming months?