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NVIDIA to Counter Radeon HD 6970 ''Cayman'' with GeForce GTX 580

If they DO release a 580, I can guarantee you it will be faster than the 6970, the dual GPU won't bother Nvidia as long as they take the single GPU crown back.
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
If they DO release a 580, I can guarantee you it will be faster than the 6970, the dual GPU won't bother Nvidia as long as they take the single GPU crown back.
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How can you 'guarantee' that Raven?

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I won't crap on any other card unless I have had first hand experience of it, I have no allegiance to any one brand, it is stupid to think and act that way, although I will admit I have been guilty of it in the past, but not so now.
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that will be just silly if it was slower, but it will somehow fit into Nvidias plans somehow I guess.
 
"Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 expected to perform 20% faster than 480"

Erm wasnt the GTX480 expected to perform 20% better than the actual 480? I'll believe it when I see it, Nvidia will spin lies to stop ATI sales.
 
Yes, the laughable thing that people seem not to have mentioned.

the 480 GTX, is simple a dropped down 512shader part.

Fermi v1.0 was launched as a 512 shader part last November.

To re-release Fermi v1.01 with finally a full 512shader part this November, to be release in Jan/Feb, and call it a 580gtx, is laughable, completely laughable.

All but the same product, launched twice, a year apart, and its STILL delayed the 2nd time around.

Ok, its probably a GF104 based card architecturally, its only a very marginal change.

I'd laugh if AMD produce a 6970 that has 1600 evergreen based shaders in it and called it a new gen, a year after the first was available......... they won't though.

INfact, the same situation would be AMD last year launching the 5870/5850 at the same time, months later they actually hit retail but the 5870 dissappears and only the cut down version is released, then they re-released the 5870 as a 6870 with all 1600 shaders.

Whats troubling is, if its really 512 shaders, its either another slight change from the GF104, or its GF100 512shader parts in ridiculously limited quantity. If its GF104 with the same ratios its going to end up a 576/528/480 shader part. You can't get a 512shader part from clusters of 48 shaders.

Its likely to perform how a 480sp + 7% shaders, + 5% efficiency + 5% clock bumps would do.

If AMD have increased efficiency by 35%, with likely higher minimums, stronger more sustained framerate and better tesselation it won't be far off already, if they add another 20% shaders to it, it will quite easily beat the "580GTX".

Absolutely ridiculous to suggest they won't release a part thats slower just because its later.
 
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