[citation][nom]bison88[/nom]It's a damn shame, the Fermi architecture had potential if it wasn't plagued with delay after delay. It should have been out 6 months ago, at the latest. ATI had a solid 6 months to let their DX11 cards soak into the market, and they held the longest "Fastest GPU" status for a good while. Usually nVidia stripped that within a month or two every time ATI released their new card by throwing out an "Ultra" version.Hopefully nVidia pulls a rabbit out of their ass and makes up for this quickly as AMD/ATI is already in the works set for a 6xxx series by the end of the year or early early next.[/citation]
The Fermi is a complete failure. The low end GPU is the same size as the 5870, but performs much worse, and costs a lot less. That's a failed designed. It's not the price they sell it at that makes it successful or not, in this context, it's the price they can make it for. ATI can sell a chip that costs the same (roughly) for a lot more, or can sell a much cheaper to make GPU for the same. That's complete dominance. That's where you want to be. That's where Intel is with AMD processors.
NVIDIA might be in a death spiral now, but it's probably a little too soon. Their revenues are shrinking, their opportunities diminishing (with the chipset business), and their market position quickly evaporating. They still have enough money to design a next generation, but if that's also a failure, which is all NVIDIA has been able to produce for some years now, it could be the beginning of the end for NVIDIA.
Give ATI their due, they are just marching to a faster beat. On top of that, they seem to have a much better idea of what works within a transistor budget, and have been much quicker in introducing newer technologies. Put them altogether, and you get news like this, and the news we got a few days ago about NVIDIA's revenue being much lower than predicted.
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