Quote Originally Posted by Chumbucket843 View Post
it wont take a miracle to make a good gpu based off of fermi. it might catch us by surprise like rv770 but thats just from good engineering. they dont need a major redesign, if anyone does its ATi. fermi is really good at tessellation and designed to handle it very efficiently. they just need more work on process/yields.
Oooh tessellation is such a big thing now nvidia's got it. We know ATI has got solid hardware under the hood. In fact, if you check this link you can see there isn't a single figure that nvidia has the edge on. This shows ATI is still missing something: they are producing a beast with better specs in theory, fewer transistors (a billion less), and excellent power consumption.

Hardware or software? I am guessing ATI's processing units aren't saturated effectively, something in the hardware. Load balancing isn't doing its thing properly or maybe something entirely different.

Tessellation? I can make a guess that ATI can improve tessellation performance with better drivers, given the nature of tessellation.