Nvidia’s Fermi range of GPUs is at this point still a largely unknown quantity. Having said that, the company now claims that the top of the range Fermi card – the GTX 480 – is the fastest single GPU graphics card in the world.
Although the company keeps performance figures closely guarded, it has revealed that the card is faster than AMD’s HD 5870 in the Unigine Heaven benchmarking tool. In some cases, as illustrated at Cebit, the card was twice as fast as the HD 5870 in Unigine performance, although how this translates into actual gaming performance remains to be seen.
Nvidia may well have the fastest graphics card in the world, but if it does not release it soon then it won’t mean much. Arriving six months after AMD’s HD5000 series, we would expect them to have the performance edge.
Now if they can just get the pricing right then Nvidia may yet reassert itself as the dominant performance graphics card manufacturer.
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