Nvidia Fermi Out 26 March

Rob-Dynamix said:
So you are going to go for it? Willing to pay?
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I would LOVE to go for it, depending on cost. If it's R10,000 I will go for it....if it's more than that...no thanks. Not yet at least. There IS a line between enthusiasm and financially daft, however thin that line may be :)
 
X-Gamer said:
Rumours suggest GTX480 beats the HD5870 by 5% on average. And costs twice as much...
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But its still faster lol, that would be an argument made by an ATi enthusiast, I love nVidia, never had a single prob with them, besides my current card which seems to be a manufacturing problem by gigabyte. So i am also price dependant... Maybe i am going to have to wait a little bit if it is more than i anticipate.
 
can't wait... to bad they not going to drop the price down n be competitive to ati so i can get myself a cheap 5 series ati card when they release. Oh well got to wait n see. hehe
 
Oh! I heard it was going ti be the 1st of April, because the Femi is going to be an overpriced joke
 
Fermi will be faster, but will they be able to supply it at a reasonable cost?

Somehow I doubt it based on some comments I've read across the web. However when the 8800 GTX was released the same arguments were raised and the 8800 GTX is one of my all-time favorite cards. I was the first person to have a XFX in my hands in the country and I am still using it to this day as my work gaming card.

If Fermi compares it will be a awesome card
 
ZAP_Tech said:
But its still faster lol, that would be an argument made by an ATi enthusiast, I love nVidia, never had a single prob with them, besides my current card which seems to be a manufacturing problem by gigabyte. So i am also price dependant... Maybe i am going to have to wait a little bit if it is more than i anticipate.
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No matter how great a fan of a given manufacturer one happens to be, I don't think it makes much sense to accept a 200% price increase for a 5%
performance boost. How many frames per second of acceptible quality does that equate to and how long will a card one has paid a premium for remain up there before it is given a run for its money by the next generation of sensibly priced mid range GPUs?
 
Thing is even if Fermi is 10% faster than 5870 it's going to be the same price as 5970 which will beat it. And ATI can come in with a 5950 or something still. This doesn't look good for Nvidia at all.
 
Good reasoning, but yet the world is full of people that do the opposite every day :)

phoenix said:
No matter how great a fan of a given manufacturer one happens to be, I don't think it makes much sense to accept a 200% price increase for a 5%
performance boost. How many frames per second of acceptible quality does that equate to and how long will a card one has paid a premium for remain up there before it is given a run for its money by the next generation of sensibly priced mid range GPUs?
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LOL. This is epic. I think I'm going to give this Fermi range of Nvidia cards a big miss thanks. I haven't read so many pre-release horror stories from a Nvidia card in years and the last time this happened they were 100% accurate. In fact, the last time this happened people who bought the cards, ignoring the warning signs, ended up with SO many problems that Nvidia PULLED the card from it's shelves and never made mention of that card ever again. I should know, because I bought one of those cards. Today there is but a hint at its existence, with Nvidia denying it all the way. I think it was the 6900Ultra
something...it was their top of the line card....for a VERY short while.

So yeah.....it looks like ATi has Nvidia by the short and curlies. I also don't think Nvidia have the strength to fight back this time either.
 
sheesh, I think i'll wait for real world benchmarks and performance before buying. It's going to be uber expensive.
If the card can support CS4 premiere accelleration, then I'm defos' in, if not, well, then it's just another graphics card.
 
Why spend so much on a new card when the old cards are less expensive and can more or less do the same job?

I mean 8800 Gt's are still able to run most games on there fullest, why get a better one? Or maybe run the ATI cards which are cheap and way better. Just do not see why people spend so much money and 1 month later its out of date.
 
TheKnowing said:
Why spend so much on a new card when the old cards are less expensive and can more or less do the same job?

I mean 8800 Gt's are still able to run most games on there fullest, why get a better one? Or maybe run the ATI cards which are cheap and way better. Just do not see why people spend so much money and 1 month later its out of date.
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Exactly!! I have said that before. I dont get it either. This is what I was trying to say to Neo, in the i7 980 thread. You pay +- R10000 for a processor, it just doesnt make sense. I would not spend that kind of money on a processor that I would just use for playing games. He says its the "enthusiats" but I still dont see the point. It just seems that sometimes people have too much cash but too few thoughts about the actually usage and when it would become out of date.

Its marketing and consumerism for you.
 
Well it depends now doesn't it. Try using an 8800 to max out STALKER: COP or BC2 at 1920x1200 resolution and you'll be in for a nasty shock. Faster graphics cards do make for a better gaming experience. I could feel the difference on every single upgrade I made - from 8800 to 4850 to gts250 to gtx260... I think at the moment there is a saturation point where you get pointless results (i.e. 100+fps on max), but up to there it's worthwhile for some gamers. What doesn't make sense is paying a much higher margin for an insignificant return which is what the 480 seems to be doing.
 
I think at this point there's too much speculation going on. We're going to have to wait for the unbiased reviewers to get their hands on one and give us the benchmarks.
 
Neo said:
I would LOVE to go for it, depending on cost. If it's R10,000 I will go for it....if it's more than that...no thanks. Not yet at least. There IS a line between enthusiasm and financially daft, however thin that line may be :)
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I am sorry but 10k for a card is nothing more than a case of "More money than grey matter". Computer parts are the worst kind of buy, they depreciate in value more than any other item you can buy from the moment you open the package. Anything more than 4k for a high end card is just plain daft.
 
jasong said:
Well it depends now doesn't it. Try using an 8800 to max out STALKER: COP or BC2 at 1920x1200 resolution and you'll be in for a nasty shock. Faster graphics cards do make for a better gaming experience. I could feel the difference on every single upgrade I made - from 8800 to 4850 to gts250 to gtx260... I think at the moment there is a saturation point where you get pointless results (i.e. 100+fps on max), but up to there it's worthwhile for some gamers. What doesn't make sense is paying a much higher margin for an insignificant return which is what the 480 seems to be doing.
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You went from a 4850 to a GTS250, which was almost identical to the 8800? Also I barely noticed a difference between the 8800GT I had and the 4850?
 
Lupus said:
You went from a 4850 to a GTS250, which was almost identical to the 8800? Also I barely noticed a difference between the 8800GT I had and the 4850?
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I swap components out a LOT. It's sort of a hobby or something. Probably had about 5 different 4850 models in all. Had a twin frozr 250 and twin frozr 260, now I have a 5770. And I can tell a difference between all of them. 250 was noticeably smoother than 4850. 250 destroyed 8800 - it's a rebranded 9800gtx+, NOT identical to an 8800. Maybe you can't tell the difference but I can - 10fps change in Far Cry 2 makes the game that much more playable.
 
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