http://www.donanimhaber.com/Nvidia_Ferm ... -17028.htm

According to Donanimhaber.com, Luciano Alibrandi, Director of PR at Nvidia said that Fermi-based GPUs (GF100) will be faster than anything ATi has currently. No launch date of Fermi was given but it appears CES 2010 will launch new generation technologies from Nvidia.
(i think the Fermi launch will not be at CES, but you never know; that IS *why* i am going)

The dual GPU Fermi maybe be launched one or two months after what they are calling GTX 360/380.

What do you think, GFX 395?

I'd say its probably true. They have had a dual gpu every generation since g71. It sounds like the Fermi version will arrive sooner than normal though.

There is two conclusions you could draw from that

* nvidia planned better for a dual-gpu card when designing Fermi

or

* nvidia needs dual Fermi to be competitive with ATi.

I believe the former reason is the correct one coupled with the fact that Fermi is launching later than nvidia wanted, but expect to see reason two peddled frantically around the internet by the nvidia nay-sayers.

Well, whichever reason it is, some very interesting times are ahead. =)
That's for sure.

i don't think it is an "or" issue

And/or

it is very difficult for me to expect that GT 100 (a single GTX) will beat 5890, a dual GPU. Certainly the new GTX will (probably) cream 5870 but will not (likely) beat AMD's dual flagship. That is what GX2 would be for.

yes, interesting times ahead

Why not? Its not as if ATi's newest totally tear away from GTX285 & 295 - they don't.

I expect GTX380 to be twice as powerful as GTX285 as a bare minimum.

i think you might be disappointed

When was the last time they completely doubled across the board performance over last gen? Not with GTX 280. Not for a long time.

I'd add that since nv30 nvidia has been pretty darn consistent in doubling previous generation performance, you need to ignore dual-gpu cards here and minor refreshes such as g70.

GTX 280 did not double performance over the previous generation.

At the most, i would expect Nvidia's single-GPU Fermi flagship to double GTX 280 performance; not GTX 285 - and of course, it would still be clearly faster than HD 5870.
- i guess we will have to wait and see

As to the next Fermi GX2, i expect some thermal/power draw issues to keep it from being 2x GTX 380

Look at what I linked from B3D - 3x the flops over GT200 (GTX280/GTX260), 2.5x over GT200b (GTX285/275/295).

No, GT200 wasn't twice as fast as g80, does it really matter? I'm certainly not about to remove my GTX280's and replace them with my GTX8800's, I can tell you that right now. It's like the g70 (7800GTX) imo, another nvidia high-end refresh style card that didn't absolutely double performance (though g71 (7900GTX) pretty much made up for that).