The Fermi Thread - Part 3

[Apokalipse]

i would like to say that too, but honestly the Perf/$ is won by last generation cards. which makes me think were all losers for giving into this ridiculous pricing scheme. yes 300$ for a 5850 is good, if this was late 2009, but its now april, and the only happy people are the ones who got on board early. so my vote is a previous generation card, until dx11 becomes important, or until current gen cards drop 30% in price, which better happen within 2 months.

RV770 was pretty killer in price/performance.

I'd say a significant reason the current gen isn't as cheap is because Cypress itself is bigger than RV770 (~330mm² vs ~256mm²).
Not to mention they use 1GB GDDR5 as standard, and also the PCB/PWM is more complex this time.

And for Nvidia, GF100 has been tough to manufacture. Yields will be preventing decent costs.

Though 5xx0 does have the advantage of great performance per watt (RV770 was somewhat lacking in that area)

2 470's would definitely beat a 5970. From what I have seen GF100 scales well, and a 5970 is basically two CF'ed 5850's which 470 usually beats.

2 x underclocked (to reduce heat and power consumption) 5870's really (1600 shaders vs 1440)