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So far fermi has two of four, late and difficult.
I don't see how 3.whatever billion transistors could fail to be hot, when you consider it's the same 40nm as the 5870. If i remember correctly the 5870 is ~2billion and runs in the 210 watt range, assuming nvidia and ati are counting transistors in roughly the same way, the fermi's 3.something billion would be ~300w.
I have no idea whether they count transistors the same way though.
My suspicion is that it's going to be like the 5970, not really that great at stock (downclocked) clocks so it fits into the ATX design rules, but very very easily overclockable to quite good clock speeds and performance.
That makes way more sense to me then releasing something that fails ATX standards, if it doesn't fit the standards the high end box-o-comp people (alienware/etc) aren't going to want to touch it. They (alienware) would be happy to ship it with a warranty voiding overclocking program though i'm sure
Have any gpus actually lived up to their hype?
I don't see how 3.whatever billion transistors could fail to be hot, when you consider it's the same 40nm as the 5870. If i remember correctly the 5870 is ~2billion and runs in the 210 watt range, assuming nvidia and ati are counting transistors in roughly the same way, the fermi's 3.something billion would be ~300w.
I have no idea whether they count transistors the same way though.
My suspicion is that it's going to be like the 5970, not really that great at stock (downclocked) clocks so it fits into the ATX design rules, but very very easily overclockable to quite good clock speeds and performance.
That makes way more sense to me then releasing something that fails ATX standards, if it doesn't fit the standards the high end box-o-comp people (alienware/etc) aren't going to want to touch it. They (alienware) would be happy to ship it with a warranty voiding overclocking program though i'm sure
Have any gpus actually lived up to their hype?
