Quote Originally Posted by Carfax View Post
This is only relevant if you take Fermi as a gaming GPU.....which it isn't.

Fermi was designed for both HPC and gaming.. The HPC market is much more profitable than the high end gamer market (and from the benchmarks I've seen, Fermi decimates ATI in that area), so ATI leading in perf per mm2 isn't as important as you'd believe.
Does that same defence stand for the 460? It's bigger than the 5870... and designed with lobotomised HPC capabilities.