The official Fermi benchmark thread

[jim]

i cant believe how much nvidia has let us down, but i am pretty they got some sort of refresh that can keep them in the game and keep us happy

Why on earth would you think that?

[vian_siu]

well i thought the gtx 275 and gtx 260(sp216 version) pretty much fixed its problems and trigger a price war, so what not a gtx 475 and 485

[TooNice]

I would be against selectively picking games that favour a particular card/brand, but I also think that popular games should be covered even if they happen to favour a particular brand. Reason being, I am buying a card to play games, not to figure out which one is theoretically faster. Well, in most cases, it doesn't matter too much, what's theoretically faster tend tend to do well overall anyway.

[jim]

well i thought the gtx 275 and gtx 260(sp216 version) pretty much fixed its problems and trigger a price war, so what not a gtx 475 and 485

The 275 was just an inbetween of the 260 and 285, not going to change much in this situation.

If nVidia had something great up its sleeve, then we would've seen it today. I expect it'll be at least a few months before they do anything of significance.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

I have said this in a another thread and i will say it again.

i am leaning more towards the 5870 card. why? because its alot cheaper, cooler and the 10-15fps gains you get on the 480 is not worth it imho especialy when the fps is near the 100's.

seriously, who cares if the 480gtx can do 120fps while the less expensive more cooler 5870 can get around 80fps on the exact same game and settings?

I tell you why the 480gtx will cost a lot for me.

first thing is the obvious starting price of £400+

2nd thing is the amount of heat and power in generates. i only have a 600w psu with about 4 hdd's an i7 quad core cpu, 1 dvd drive(going to buy another one) and about 6 120mm fans cooling my system.

For me to have a bit of peace of mind i would need to buy a new psu thats 1000w or above and a decent one of that range is over £100.

Summer is also coming along and things will only get hotter so possibly i would also need better case fans as im only using lian li stock ones or water cool the gpu which will cost another £100+

As you can see now, £100+400+100 i around 600 in total to get a 480gtx running fine without anyworrying if my psu is overloaded or the temps going above 90c in the summer.

With a 5870. i dont need a new psu and i dont need a new cooling system. i spend £300 on it and i could use the extra £200 to maybe buy more ram(only have 3gb) or maybe a 1080p monitor.

In a nutshell the 480gtx is too much for the performance gains. None economical and need to re-do my cooling and psu on my pc which adds to the cost of it.


ATI may not have the fastest card now, but for me, speed is not everything in games or else i would have bought two 4870x2 last gen but as stated above, im not interested in a gain of fps from 80-120fps. what im interested in is a gain from 30fps to maybe 50/60fps and none of the benhcmarks have produced results on that ie crysis and other demanding games that no one can play above 30fps in insane resolutions

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I just remembered this thread:

http://forums.hexus.net/graphics-car...-oriented.html

Read post 9!

[Disturbedguy]

Benchmark/ review here: - http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...0_sli_review/1

[kalniel]

I just remembered this thread:

http://forums.hexus.net/graphics-car...-oriented.html

Read post 9!

#11 is quite funny too

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

It seems that the GTX480 has lower image quality than the HD5870 in Metro 2033 with very high settings and AAA activated:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid..._11.html#sect0

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...ality_followup

[kalniel]

It seems that the GTX480 has lower image quality than the HD5870 in Metro 2033 with very high settings and AAA activated:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid..._11.html#sect0

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/...ality_followup

Seems like it's a bug in metro that affects both cards at certain settings, and one card at others. Not really relevant to fermi as it's just a game bug.

[Pingu2003]

so who actually has a fermi, im bored of my 5770s now, had them too long ... 3 months

[j.o.s.h.1408]

i want one. definetly not as hot and power hungry as a 5870.

[MadduckUK]

i want one. definetly not as hot and power hungry as a 5870.

its you, so not sure if serious

[j.o.s.h.1408]

its you, so not sure if serious

i've been looking at it from a none bias none fanboy prospective and it seems worth it.

its faster, more features and doesnt go over 80c on the "user reviews" i have seen. the 5870 goes around 75 on load i think so not much difference.

i remember people moaning how the i7's runs much hotter than core 2 quads

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

[kalniel]

They're supposed to be out today aren't they? Scan/ebuyer etc. don't seem to have any in stock :/