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Or perhaps the CCC has a fixed upper limit for memory OC. I believe the 5870 started out the same way.

So all we had to do to calculate the performance of the GTX 680 was take the numbers from a GTX 580 and multiply by three? Well, don't we look foolish now. We could have saved ourselves over 3200 posts of discussion if we had only known. :P

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That slide shows the 580 as having the exact same load temp as a 7970. All of the reviews I've seen put the 7970 anywhere from 4°C to 10°C cooler under load. Seems fishy.

When it was released, the 5870 was substantially faster than the top single Nvidia GPU available at the time (GTX 285).

Notice the link printed in green on the naked 6970 pictures? It appears that someone has it listed on an auction site somewhere. I'm pretty sure that's a big no-no.

PowerColor AX5870 (DiRT 2 edition) is in stock for $395 + free shipping: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10012194&prodlist=search

I was thinking the same thing. I'm curious to see the 480 benchmarked alongside a 1GB 5870 and a 2GB 5870. Then we can get an accurate performance picture and see how much a 1GB framebuffer is limiting performance at 2560x1600.

Seems fishy I don't know about that chart Annihilator posted. Looking through it, the GTX 480 beats the HD 5870 at every single resolution and AA/AF level except on two tests, and just barely at that: Crysis Warhead 19x12 4x/16x - 5870 beats 480 by 0.4 fps Left4Dead 25x16 8x/16x -...

Whoa, there! I never said Nvidia is doomed. If ATi could survive R600/3870, then Nvidia can surely weather GT200/Fermi. I'm simply of the opinion that whatever additional profits Nvidia will gain from the HPC functions of Fermi will not be enough to offset its increased cost to produce due to...

Perhaps. :) Oops.

But at what cost? Nvidia has stuck with their "big die" strategy and now it appears that the gaming performance of their 3 million transistor Fermi is going to be roughly equal to that of a mildly overclocked 2 million transistor ATi Cypress. Yes, Fermi has additional HPC capabilities...

The way I understand launches to be: Hard launch - Product is available on the date set forth by the manufacturer and is available in quantity. Soft launch - Product is available on the date set forth by the manufacturer but is available only in limited quantities. Paper launch -...

I guess that remains to be seen. But just because features are present on a GPU doesn't automatically mean they'll be used to any great degree. ATi has had hardware tessellation present since, when? The 2000 series, I think. That was back in 2007. And tessellation is only now just beginning...

It appears that Nvidia has decided that the "announcement of an announcement" idea didn't go over quite as well as they'd hoped and decided to simply let the cat out of the bag: http://www.facebook.com/NVIDIA