Fermi real-world benchmarks surface, and the results may surprise you.

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So an Arab site, arabhardware.net, has released some benchmarks comparing the 5870 and the GTX480 in Dirt 2, and 3 resolutions of Far Cry 2.

If the graphs are accurate, then the GTX480 has opened up a lead much better than the originally rumoured 5-10%, which may be worthy of its inflated price tag (and TDP), at least for the real enthusiasts (who arguably should go for a 5970 in any case).

Check out the graphs here:

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=23032
 
Subversion said:
So an Arab site, arabhardware.net, has released some benchmarks comparing the 5870 and the GTX480 in Dirt 2, and 3 resolutions of Far Cry 2.

If the graphs are accurate, then the GTX480 has opened up a lead much better than the originally rumoured 5-10%, which may be worthy of its inflated price tag (and TDP), at least for the real enthusiasts (who arguably should go for a 5970 in any case).

Check out the graphs here:

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=23032
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Problem is there will still be some people going for this because "nVidia is always better", people need to learn to shop for performance and not brand.
 
Shopping by brand sucks. People get too obsessed over brand. I still dont think the Fermi GPU's will be a raging success.
 
Well brand loyalty is inherently illogical. You should always buy whatever gives you the best in terms of value/performance/reliability.

The big problem with Fermi I think is going to be availability - the March 26 launch is pretty much known to be only a paper launch, and Fudzilla is reporting TSMC yields of under 50% for Fermi:

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18172/34/

So even if it IS popular, Nvidia is just not going to have the cards to sell - each one is going to be sold at a loss to the company anyway. Also, expect ATI to push down the prices of their product when it is released, creating competition strong enough that only Nvidia fanboys will be dead-set on a GTX4xx card.
 
I hope those benchmarks are true - if so Nvidia can comfortably take top place in the speed wars and give some real competition to ATI. Competition is good.

Actually if they are true it makes the $100 premium for Fermi a bargain.
 
Could someone please post me the results of the benchmarks, as I am limited to local cap for the remainder of this month...
Pretty please m'kay...:)
 
not that much faster to be honest. although these benchies are still a bit suspect to me
 
Have you guys read this? : http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1597530/fermi-gpus-pack-punch

The reference boards had 512 cores. The actual production units will have LESS. That means any and all benchmarks that have come to light so far are actually VOID.

From past experience learned the hard way I can tell you all this right now: Whenever Nvidia releases something that is as difficult and troublesome as this "fermi" range is, STAY AWAY. You're going to buy a nice big fat cat-in-the-bag.
 
Either way i guess its more of giving the people something to look at, if there is a change then there is a change in the cards but the problem everyone faces is that for the first time the can't rely on any news about the card because nVidia has been tight lipped. Even though the launch date is a few days away.

We all are in the same situation we will have to wait and see for real world performance results and that will only happen the day the card officially release. So i am eager to see what this thing can actuall do... I am not much of an ATI Fan not cause they bad cards but because i always have issues with them and i dont like trouble much.
 
Nictron said:
My Gaming, could've waited for the official launch.

This is still pure speculation :)
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Sure the guaranteed real stuff would be awesome to look at, but MyGaming reports news, and this is most definitely news. Leaked benchmarks and rumours about secretive hardware releases are just awesome to follow, don't you think? :)

I love following a new piece of hardware before its released, hearing about all its problems, hype, whatever.

If we just waited for something to be released, the first Fermi related articles on the interwebs would be published on March 26th! And then what would I waste my time reading? :)

If people are interested in reading something, its worth printing IMO.


Anyways, I'm not sure I agree with this speculation that these benches could be from the 512 shader cards. Surely Nvidia can't be sending some cards to suppliers with 512, then sending more without? I'm pretty sure they'd have the product finalised completely (allowing for best yield, TDP, etc.) before actually finishing it as a working card.
 
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