seeing Bit-tech's twitter post this morning, i'd like to join in on the fun just like the Fermi transistor count game Bindi posted a while ago. How much will GTX480 be faster than 5870 in Crysis at 25x16 dx10? (minimal FPS) my guess: 8 FPS. cos it's nVidia optimised game and Fermi will be a little faster than 5870 in current-gen games. if it's Heaven benchmark with tessellation, i'd say 20 FPS because 5870 hits rock bottom with tessellation. predictions: staff: Rich aka Bindibadgi - 3 Clive aka Claave - 14 Alex aka Sifter3000 - 10 forum members: wuyanxu - 8 Pete J - 10 M7ck - 16 Seeks - 6 Digi - 5 Xonar - 6 Omnituens - 13 smc8788 - 4 cybergenics - 22 titanium angel - 19 (says realistically: 7) thehippoz - -2 (5870 being faster by 2) cobalt6700 - 7 Krikkit - 2 C-Sniper - 7 Ph4ZeD - ? storm20200 - 5 Domestic_ginger - 4 trig - ? (4 average) D-Cyph3r - 4 Burnout21 - "its over 9000" Sloth - 11 Jasio - 5 Showerhead - 4 Moyo2k - 6 DorkSterr - 9 Quavr - 13 j_jay4 - 0 (identical performance) el2k - 13 FuzzyOne - 9 Elton - 7 fingerbob69 - 2 hrtz_Junkie - 13 kenco_uk - 7 dec - 12 memeroot - -3 (5870 being faster) theskirrid - 5 numanoid - 7 Bloody_Pete - 25 andrew8200m - "Eight million!" Hovisloaf - 11 flibblesan - 14 planem997 - 8 yakyb - 6 Andy Mc - -1 (5870 being faster) true_gamer - 5 Mystiik - -4 (5870 being faster) RotoSequence - 17 Snuffles - 6 confusis - -5 (5870 being faster) RESULTS: -1 FPS! Andy Mc won this mini-game with thehippoz and j_jay4 very close.
I'll wager 10FPS increase in Crysis for average FPS and 5FPS increase for min FPS! Edit: For the 480!
im going to be overly ambitious here and say 19, realistically though i think its more likely to be around 7
If Fermi is 10% faster in Crysis, then as nVidia cards are faster in general in Crysis, that means that Fermi is just as fast as the ATi cards.