GTX 480 and GTX 470 Reviews

[japamd]

Don't any of you guys find it strange that before the reviews, there were 2560 (plus some AA) benchies everywhere that showed a massive Fermi lead, and that everyone had attributed it to the extra memory? Now we have the reviews and the situation is actually the opposite.

Maybe GF100 ROPs are bottlenecking it as GF100 still process only 32 pixels per clock which is G200' same rate, while having twice more stream processors and even more shading power. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

On a irrelevant note, I think GTX 400 series' performance in minimum FPS numbers shouldn't be missed. 15% over 5870 doesn't mean much, but even higher min framerates are in the equation, and I personally care more about the min FPS than the max FPS.

That's great indeed, but without a graph showing how the frame rates are fluctuating it's hard to say if it's good or if it's only a quick disk hiccup or something like that. If sustained min FPS are better on GF100 that would be a very nice improvement, as you said, better than higher avg FPS as they're already on top of roof for most games.

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