@Prokanda oh but i did, on anandtech and hothardware quoting the latter: "and its paltry performance lead doesn't jibe with its projected 25% price premium" what now?
@Wildman: yeah.. it's next gen hardware for DX11 that's gearing towards tessellation... when new hardware comes out without a lot of software written for it to be used optimally, current gen tests don't really show it off.
@Prokanda you mean Big Green is counting on tessellation being the way of the future. about the same way they did with physx... and if i'm not mistaken there are about four major titles that capitalize on that capability? i may eat those words, but in current games... and if tesselation does become the next BIG thing, ati's probably coming out with Northern Islands within a year from now. as for the SLi, yeah, that's pretty insane, makes the whole "buy one now, buy one later" idea a whole lot more palatable. i'm not even going to try to argue with that point.
Agreed, I also find it funny that years ago, back in the Radeon 8500 days, nVidia could do nothing else but say that Tessellation was useless (simply because the gForce3 didn't support it and the 8500 did) to the point developers were completely discouraged to use it.
... now they're marketing it as the second coming of Jesus with a free Ferrari for everyone xD
@YuriTenshi Wow does this mean the fact that I'm happy with my sub $1K laptop with an ATI 5730 means I am no longer a real gamer? .. How far I have fallen as I get old..
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And AMD/ATI remains the price for performance leader... Silly me for thinking nVidia would help drop the Red Team's prices.
@Wildman: didn't read the article, huh?
@Prokanda
oh but i did, on anandtech and hothardware
quoting the latter:
"and its paltry performance lead doesn't jibe with its projected 25% price premium"
what now?
@Wildman: yeah.. it's next gen hardware for DX11 that's gearing towards tessellation... when new hardware comes out without a lot of software written for it to be used optimally, current gen tests don't really show it off.
also, the whole 90% performance for SLi?
thanks.
@Prokanda
you mean Big Green is counting on tessellation being the way of the future. about the same way they did with physx... and if i'm not mistaken there are about four major titles that capitalize on that capability? i may eat those words, but in current games... and if tesselation does become the next BIG thing, ati's probably coming out with Northern Islands within a year from now.
as for the SLi, yeah, that's pretty insane, makes the whole "buy one now, buy one later" idea a whole lot more palatable. i'm not even going to try to argue with that point.
@Wildman
ATI is also the the most power efficient solution. I mean, the power draw on these things... and the cooler! What a huge cooler!
@archkron
yeah, they're almost better compared to the 5970 in power draw, noise, and heat.
@Wildman: yeah.. 350 really isn't that bad for 1/2 of a next-gen SLi setup. I think that's where it's really going to count.
@Prokanda
350 isn't bad? Thats almost what all my computer uses combined!
@DougieBear
i think 350 was a reference to the price of a 470
@Prokanda
Sorry for some reason I thought you were talking about power draw :/
Price is still immense.
@Wildman
There is no proper benchmarks tests to prove its awesome performance... its really the next gen.
@wegap
This is what envidya drones actually believe.
@Prokanda $350 for starting towards an SLI setup?
Sorry, just me here wishing my dad was rich as hell too.
@archkron Thats what she said
@Wildman
Agreed, I also find it funny that years ago, back in the Radeon 8500 days, nVidia could do nothing else but say that Tessellation was useless (simply because the gForce3 didn't support it and the 8500 did) to the point developers were completely discouraged to use it.
... now they're marketing it as the second coming of Jesus with a free Ferrari for everyone xD
@YuriTenshi
Wow does this mean the fact that I'm happy with my sub $1K laptop with an ATI 5730 means I am no longer a real gamer? .. How far I have fallen as I get old..
@astrodemoniac: was that a Goldeneye reference?! nice.
@astrodemoniac
6 months ago, nVidia was also saying how DX11 wasn't a major factor in new video card purchases when the 58xx series came out
lol nVidia. So cocky and stupid.
@Wildman So, 60 Db is acceptable? I don't know about you, but i prefer a rig that doesn't sound like a twin engine taking off.