[SD]Master_Wong wrote:Elements wrote:
There are no official benchmarks yet because they cant produce enough card that actualy work to send out to be reviewed and the ones that do work run insanely hot and have no powermangement because reducing the wattage breaks the card... but the people who have seen them say that the card will give upto a 5% improvement over the 5870 in some cases... for instance the heaven benchmarks that Nvidia have shown they only picked the tesselation intensive sections which Fermi does have an advantage in but in real world application tesselation doesnt work like it does in that benchmark anyways to it doesnt matter.
All in all... unless you want an overpriced card that runs hot and has little room to overclock unless you are gonna be running on water cooling then I would go for an ATI card... just wait till Fermi is out and see how ATI reacts they will probably reduce the price a little and may even release a new card... there is talk of a true 5870X2.
your post failed here
There are no official benchmarks
and fail even more is they are released on march 26th
NO reputable company would ever put a down a release date if such
HUGE flaws existed, you may notice im bolding key words here
and also because nvidia releases a new card dont mean ati will reduce prices or bring out a new card. you have no grasp on reality your posts are based on pure rumor and mislead rumors at that.
I will wait until it is out although i have since decided upon a new course of action for my computer upgrades so will not be getting this right away so it will have time to settle flaws (yes i said flaws) that pop up in the first itteration of the fermi gf100 chip.
i am eager to hear your point, counter-point arguement to this post and request links to back up this quite oblivous false rumors.
Say what you want the points I made are valid, you can search around for yourself, the Fermi chip design doesnt work the way they intended it to... if it did do you think they would be over 6 months behind the competition with the cars still to even ship.
Look around for yourself the problems arent exactly secret, they have problems with power management which give them an insanely high TDP which means overclocking will be all be impossible for users running the stock cooler.
They have missed their clock speeds twice now I believe meaning the cards arent even close the running what they first said they would be.
The performance reports from the people who have gotten a hold of the advanced chips are not impressive enough to out way the draw backs an insane price they will charge for them.
Believe me or dont believe me I dont care lol, if you go and research you will see the problems they have had and are continueing to have with the chip... I mean apparently the reference board isnt even finalised yet... Until they can shrink the chip they dont really stand a chance of realisticly competing with ATI this round. Yes they may get a couple of % performance here and there but unless they solve the other problems and drop their prices those few % count for jack.
And you do realise that "Official" benchmarks are never real before the launch as they only supply the cards for review to people who will skim over the failings, they did this with the last couple of gens when all they did was rename the same chip over and over again... so I dont doubt they will do it again with this failure.... if you want a benchmark you will have to wait untill it is released and see a realworld benchmark done buy an actual customer.
Plus releasing the cards on the 26th means nothing... they can do a release even if they only have like 5k cards... so that doesnt mean anything.