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i don't know about you guys but to me it all looks like some kind of a price fixing thing between ATI and Nvidia![]()
HD5xxx series is close in performance to what Nvidia is offering. When we look at the GTX470 and GTX480 everyone looks @ power consumption that is not so much higher then ATI's ,and even that it's @ full load ,it matters for everyone that has sub i7/ddr3/ssd ect. rig but it doesn't matter for someone with pricey X58 mobo, with LGA1366 i7 cpu, and 1000kw+ PSU that GTX480 is using 50-60watts more power @ 100% load than ATI's HD5870. Nvidia did their homework, they gave people the fastest single chip solution for year 2009/2010 (so far ;]) ,and what did ATI do ? amped by 2 shader cores from their HD4890 line + DX11 (that's why Tessellation is lagging in there) , and their fastest card is not single chip solution its a dual chip 5970.
GTX470/480 may be noisier but when you have the rest of your rig specs on par with the GTX then you probably will water cool the VGA also.
I have GTX275 right now, i would gladly switch to GTX470 (lower power draw in idle then my gtx275) but not with the prices of these cards today. i think the pricing it's the only problem with Fermi based GPU today, i mean c'mon guys we don't have the same mistake like FX5800 series anymore ;], it's all about the dollar/euro now.
There is no price fixing...I would understand your suspicion if Ati and Nvidia released together and at the same time, but Nvidia had 6 months to prepare and because they couldn't compete with Ati's products due to manufacturing defects, they had to position their cards wisely - in such a way as to undermine the competition and be the better sale.