The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[pentium777]

Using that logic - everyone should go out and buy a 5970 as soon as possible. It's the most expensive, but it's also the fastest.

Also, you keep mentioning 2560x1600. But Fermi takes a huge hit (for now) at 2560x1600 so a 5970 has an even greater lead over a 480 at that res. So if speed at 2560x1600 is the only thing that matters to you (not power, heat, noise, single vs multi-gpu, or cost) then why pick a Fermi for this res rather then the fastest card?

That's a dual GPU card @ $700 IF you can find one in stock and as I mentioned... Fermi SLI is the absolute fastest there is right now? Don't even try the 5970 CF because quad GPU scaling is NOT good and if you can find them 5970 is $700 so that'd be $1400 and again scaling isn't good. I did mention I'd be doing 2xGTX 480 SLI didn't I? Always planned on it unless GTX 480 wasn't a good product, it is not the best overall release ever but then again 8800 Ultra was 800-1000, GTX 280 was $649 each so GTX 480 SLI costs me $1000 that's $300 less than my GTX 280 SLI cost me.

It has already been identified that the 2560x1600 hit is unexpected and will be corrected in a few weeks (Nvidia report to one of the review sites) These GPUs are fully programmable, with Nvidia's history on driver revisions I fully expect and believe that the card's performance will improve and be an even better value.