Kuzi
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It's not that surprising to see low yields on Fermi, as it is a large chip and possibly around 500mm^2 in size or a bit larger. TSMC only improved their yields for Cypress a few weeks ago, a chip that is much smaller. I'm sure in a few months yields for Fermi will improve too.
From estimates about Fermi's die size, memory configuration (and yields), I would say a high end Fermi with 1.5GB GDDR5 would cost about ~$600 at release. Unless this card will perform +50% over an 5870 (highly unlikely), then it would be a tough sell at that price. Yes there will be some people that could find some use for the extra memory size/bandwidth, or the improved GPGPU functionality, but the majority of people buying these cards care about one thing and that is price/performance for the games they play.
Also keep in mind that for all we know prices for the 5870/5850/5770 may be lowered to say $350/$250/$150 respectively once Fermi releases in a few months. I think that's exactly what ATI will do. With the current market situation, how many people are willing to pay over $500 for a video card?
Hopefully Nvidia will have a mainstream Fermi card that performs and is priced similarly to the 5870. Nvidia is in a very tough situation right now.
From estimates about Fermi's die size, memory configuration (and yields), I would say a high end Fermi with 1.5GB GDDR5 would cost about ~$600 at release. Unless this card will perform +50% over an 5870 (highly unlikely), then it would be a tough sell at that price. Yes there will be some people that could find some use for the extra memory size/bandwidth, or the improved GPGPU functionality, but the majority of people buying these cards care about one thing and that is price/performance for the games they play.
Also keep in mind that for all we know prices for the 5870/5850/5770 may be lowered to say $350/$250/$150 respectively once Fermi releases in a few months. I think that's exactly what ATI will do. With the current market situation, how many people are willing to pay over $500 for a video card?
Hopefully Nvidia will have a mainstream Fermi card that performs and is priced similarly to the 5870. Nvidia is in a very tough situation right now.