AMD calls Fermi a paper dragon
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Lycanthrope
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Pity... I'd really like to know what, exactly, Nvidia have been thinking lately... Kudos to AMD and ATi for taking the market. At this rate my next card will be an ATi. *sigh*
Here's hoping Nvidia do something outstanding.
Here's hoping Nvidia do something outstanding.
This is really confusing to me. I've been sitting with my GTX280's for a while now, and usually, being the graphics-slut that I am, I usually try and save my money to get the latest and greatest cards when they come out which WAS almost every year....now it seems the GPU battles have died, sort of?
I have absolutely no new GPU toys to look forward to anymore and it feels really empty
I have absolutely no new GPU toys to look forward to anymore and it feels really empty
Lycanthrope
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This is really confusing to me. I've been sitting with my GTX280's for a while now, and usually, being the graphics-slut that I am, I usually try and save my money to get the latest and greatest cards when they come out which WAS almost every year....now it seems the GPU battles have died, sort of?
I have absolutely no new GPU toys to look forward to anymore and it feels really empty
I have to agree... So far nothing has really convinced me to go from a GTX260 216SP up. The framerate differences are just so marginal :/ I want something really sock-knocking-off
Only thing which may get me to upgrade is the DX11 support, but for now... meh...
JKR
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My last card was an ATI HD2900XT.
Served me extremely well up to a month ago when it started dying (monitor would just loose it's signal) so good timing I thought, and upgraded to the new 5870.
Now previously when I'd skip a generation of cards and upgrade the difference was always amazing. Games that were very sluggish would suddenly run faster and look way way better.
But with this upgrade I've skipped the 3000 range and the 4000 range.. two generations of cards later and to be honest I'm hardly impressed. The 5870 is a nice card, does what it claims to I guess. But I really don't get a feeling of anything different.
My last card would run a game at say 30fps, this card can run it at 90fps. So looks pretty much identical at the end of the day apart from being slightly smoother.
I guess I'm benchmarking them against each other with old games, so there won't be much difference visually. Hopefully games next year will take more advantage of it.
tldr: gfx cards have just become faster, but visually nothings changing.
Served me extremely well up to a month ago when it started dying (monitor would just loose it's signal) so good timing I thought, and upgraded to the new 5870.
Now previously when I'd skip a generation of cards and upgrade the difference was always amazing. Games that were very sluggish would suddenly run faster and look way way better.
But with this upgrade I've skipped the 3000 range and the 4000 range.. two generations of cards later and to be honest I'm hardly impressed. The 5870 is a nice card, does what it claims to I guess. But I really don't get a feeling of anything different.
My last card would run a game at say 30fps, this card can run it at 90fps. So looks pretty much identical at the end of the day apart from being slightly smoother.
I guess I'm benchmarking them against each other with old games, so there won't be much difference visually. Hopefully games next year will take more advantage of it.
tldr: gfx cards have just become faster, but visually nothings changing.
AdrWin
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I don't think it's good that AMD & ATi have taken the market, doing so increases the risk of increased pricing for GPu's wouldn't you say? It's always good to have competition in the market place, I hope that the Fermi does compete with the HD5000's. I agree it would be nice to have something to look forward soon.
the whole "the new nvidia card will not be geared towards gaming" ...... confuses me.
i've always felt ATi was superior to Nvidia but the competition was always healthy ... i don't suppose holding out on buying my new graphics card (5870) will help any? thought i could save some bucks and wait for the new nvidia's release... giving my old PC to my younger bro... QQ
i've always felt ATi was superior to Nvidia but the competition was always healthy ... i don't suppose holding out on buying my new graphics card (5870) will help any? thought i could save some bucks and wait for the new nvidia's release... giving my old PC to my younger bro... QQ
Crzwaco
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Why you say that ati was mum for about 3 years before they got bough by AMD where as Nvidia had the market... Then amdati really up the entity with there 4000 series, now the 5000 series.
So nvidia is probably just having a good look to see where the can strike back and when.
Weird since most of the games have the logo the way its meant to be played, so yeah confusing. But I know for a while now they have been moving more into other things(can't find the article saying exactly what that was just google it)
Now the nvidia fans are feeling like we did when ati went mum.
My brother still played cod 4 on my old ati9600 pro 512 meg till and its still going strong. I bough that a long long time ago.