http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforce-g ... 31846.html
-Toms.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3783
-Anandtech.

Conclusion: Not worth the price

To clear something up:

The ATI HD5970 is two GPUs on a single platform. So its physically a single card but technically two gpus.

I put all the tech information about the current GPU lineup onto one picture. Dont put too much faith into the price category as some of it is outdated.

All my hopes and dreams, set on fire and raped like a Belgian woman during Bastille day.

Guess I'll be hanging onto my 8800gt for awhile longer. Here's to hoping that future games leverage Fermi's capabilities and make it worth the price.

Well in some of subsections of those articles is mentioned something about "locked capabilities." Not sure what they mean but no doubt once the home hackers get their hands on them we will see soon enough.

I kinda anticipated that the Geforce would beat its direct competitors by a small margin. Why? well After three years, Crysis is still the most demanding game on the market. If Ati and Nvidia would sell a card that totally owned that game, they couldn't sell the next generation because there would be no point in going past the 60 frames barrier. And it would be pointless to spend so much money for one to three games only. Only a fraction of gamers have above 19x12 resolution and even smaller number of them have a monitor sporting 120hz. It would be suicide to sell such a product. Unless the games develop a sudden dramatic necessity for more horsepower (which they wont because of a) consoles where the profitability according to industry rumors is up to 5 times larger than on the pc and b) money is where the masses are or in other words at the industry average) we won't be seeing any more doubling of the performance in comparison with the direct competitor.