The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[pentium777]

It's obviously not scaling in that game, drivers could fix that. If it is valid to expect/hope that Nvidia fixes 2560x1600 scaling in several games then it is no less valid to expect/hope ATI fixes quad-gpu scaling in a few games.

Personally, I wouldn't buy a product based on the hope of future driver improvements though.

But there is no need to pursue this line of discussion any further if you don't want to. I just wanted to understand the motivation of someone who isn't a multi-GPU hater going with the slower GTX480 over a 5970. But your responses have answered that for me, if indirectly. Thank you.

Well add to the fact my board is a 790I and I really don't have a need or desire to go with a new board and cpu right now. My 4Ghz Dual core sees about 60-75% per core usage if the game is multithreaded well. Crossfire isn't happening on a 790I so that factors in a little bit but less so than the dislike for ATI Catalyst drivers. If I had good experiences with ATI in the past I'd possibly changed MB+CPU 5-6 months ago when 5870 came out and done CF with them.

I don't say I'll never use another ATI card again however it'll really have to be better circumstances than just less heat 86'C vs 93'C and fan noise is almost the same SLI vs CF, power usage I won't even acknowledge. Perhaps in my next major overhaul I'll take another look at the competition but thankfully for all of us competition is there. Both products are good and both products will appeal to different people for different reasons. ATI has a great head start, if they have been utilizing the last 6 months and have forward momentum they could do some really amazing things. I firmly believe both companies are pushing some technology limits (for now) and going beyond what is currently out will require some costly R&D on both sides.