Quote Originally Posted by Dimitriman View Post
Please don't be upset with my comment. I said that nvidia will not be able to catch up with amd on anything built on the 40nm node. this round is a complete win by amd until next node is in production. for that time we can only speculate as of now about amd and nvidia next gen but i expect nvidia to be a lot more competitive on 28nm. still i dont expect amd to just sit around and do nothing either.

fact is - nvidia cannot make a functional 40nm fermi with 512cuda 128tmu and 512bit mem controller. and this means they are not likely to take the performance crown untill 28nm.

... and no nvidia wont be bankrupt cause of fermi
Not quite...the GTX 460 has been selling like hot cakes and rules the mid range with an iron fist. As such, you can't call it a complete win for AMD, but they definitely did surprise a lot of people.

Anyway, a dual GTX 460 will put up some numbers for sure. I'm not fond of dual-gpu cards regardless of brand(we all know that) but it is easily feasible to pull off and they scale like crazy. Especially if it's clocked right. Even more so if they go crazy and use the unlocked cores for this one(remember, the G104 has more to it then we see in the GTX 460).

One thing I will say though, a 512 shader card is EASILY within possibility if they base it off the GF 104 design instead of the GF100 design... The amount of space saved by cutting off the workstation features would allow for 512 shaders without issue and still be under the power draw of the GTX 480.

As for 28nm, didn't NVidia already say they have a new design sitting and waiting for when 28nm is ready? Not like I take either company's word as gold these days(EVERY company lies, we all know that), but sounds to me like this is just going to be a stop-gap tide over much like what AMD is doing.

Finally, about the renaming... NVidia would be stupid not to. With AMD toting their new cards as their next gen, people who don't know anything about graphics chips will think "well, that NVidia card is last years, while this AMD card is new"... Imagine the BS best buy workers would spew. If either company calls something a next gen part the other HAS to follow suit.