Quote Originally Posted by LightSpeed View Post
Also, since Fermi already got a performance boost with the new driver, and Cayman isnt a completely new architecture, Id say performance boost would be similar between the two with new drivers. Which leaves Cayman with a higher performance and lower power consumption as well (most likely)
Cayman could very likely outperform the 480, while having lower power consumption I agree. I guess we'll just have to wait and see..

The Nvidia exclusive features dont matter enough to the majority of people to warrant a card thats slower and consumes more power IMO, but to those who think the features are that important, thats perfectly fine. To each, their own
Well there's more to it than that. A lot of people go with Nvidia because of their driver support.

Whether you agree with that or not, you have to admit that there's a perception that ATI's drivers are inferior to Nvidia's.

As long as I've been a computer enthusiast (which is slightly more than a decade now), that stereotype has persisted.

Quote Originally Posted by flopper View Post
are you one?
If you aint how would you even consider my answer to be appropiate as you wouldnt understand it?
I'm not, but you don't see me making comments as to whether Fermi had a bad design or not.

That kind of question warrants indepth knowledge that I don't possess.

Its called 460 since Nvidia went over the top with their first generation Fermi.
its bad design, simple as that.
Fermi was designed to tap into BOTH the HPC and gaming market. As such, how can you say it's a bad design when Fermi is leading the 5000 series in gaming, and utterly destroying ATI's FirePro series in the professional market.

amd on the other hand, well...their 3 last designs and implementations seems to be flawless. The jury still out for the 6000 series.
So flawless they need to use "brilinear" filtering