Quote Originally Posted by flopper View Post
So, our hardware, video and cpu, and other things is getting soon to a point where we can have a combined element, and fermi is just powerhungry due to bad design, first generation tends to be that.
Unless you're a semiconductor engineer, how could you possibly know that Fermi is power hungry due to "bad design?"

I don't think most people here understand that Fermi is the first TRULY computational GPU. All those things you said about convergent technologies into one neat package, are made manifest in Fermi....in the sense that Fermi has many CPU like qualities such as being fully IEEE compliant, support for C++, having dedicated caches and support for much greater VRAM.

Quote Originally Posted by STEvil View Post
Hey carfax. Multi-quote.


Quote Originally Posted by Florinmocanu View Post
It is a failure, compared to the 8000s series. It's a "meh" architecture when gaming is concerned because it takes a huge die and a lot more TDP to surpass the smaller and cooler Cypress chip. that is, perf/mm.
The very fact that a GPU like Fermi, which isn't even a pure gamer chip can outperform Cypress (which is dedicated towards gaming) speaks volumes in and of itself.

And as I mentioned before, Fermi's performance is increasing with every driver update. I've noticed a lot of differences between the various driver revisions since I've owned mine.

It wouldn't surprise me if Fermi ends up being 20% faster than it was on introduction, simply due to driver optimizations.