Quote Originally Posted by orangekiwii View Post
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?
+1,
i think its alot of balancing the new gpu/memory power. the 4870s had much stronger ram to gpu power than we do now. i dont know much about building drivers, but when it comes to billions of calculations a second, i bet its alot of trial and error testing, and then boom, they find the sweet spot