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AMD confirm the delay of Cayman

FFS!

I don't want to be spending money mid december on a graphics card, I have cash available now but I might not next month. :(

But I don't want to buy GTX580 now not knowing performance of Cayman, damn them!! :mad:
 
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I think they will be trading blows out of the box 580 gtx and 6970.
Overclocked though? 580 gtx will whoop it.
Scaling on Fermi is very very good. Shows good architecture at heart.

The battle ground will be the new 2011 3DMARK and I got a sneaky feeling that AMD might just hold a little lead there. Judging from some rumors around the net.

We will see.
 
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I think they will be trading blows out of the box 580 gtx and 6970.
Overclocked though? 580 gtx will whoop it.
Scaling on Fermi is very very good. Shows good architecture at heart.

The battle ground will be the new 2011 3DMARK and I got a sneaky feeling that AMD might just hold a little lead there. Judging from some rumors around the net.

We will see.

I do have an issue with that, scaling via overclocking shows nothing more than its basically underclocked at stock due to power/thermal issues. Have a 600W high quality PSU and a decent case vs an incredibly tight PSU power budget in a tiny silent Dell box and heat/noise isn't much of an issue.

They overclock well because, frankly, a 40nm chip has no problems doing 1Ghz core clocks, (smaller double pumped transistors like the shader clocks on the Fermi aren't doing quite as well).

Its like putting out a, I dunno, 725Mhz 5850 and calling it a better overclocker than a 850Mhz 5870, its not, its just underclocked.

Either way, its not really official confirmation since again, I've NEVER seen any company release a press release with an NDA date in it.

First rule of NDA dates, is don't talk about NDA dates.

Its the same news thats been reposted(like all news these days) from the original source, so its dodgey at best. Theres been no official release date out of AMD mouths, EVER, at any stage. I don't think Charlie has said anything beyond late Nov or Dec, the only person that put a date on it, started to put a date on it, AFAIK, was Fud, who then later on gets to say they are late.

With no official launch date(the clearest I've seen in AMD quarterly meetings is Q4), its hard to be officially delayed.
 
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As i have said before a thousand times the whole 69** has been delayed.
AMD own slides prove that.
6990 was Q4 2010 and is now Q1 2011
6970 was NOV 2010 and is now Q4 2010

(screw FUD and other rumors. This is AMD telling you)

It doesn't take a genius to work it out.
 
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As i have said before a thousand times the whole 69** has been delayed.
AMD own slides prove that.
6990 was Q4 2010 and is now Q1 2011
6970 was NOV 2010 and is now Q4 2010

(screw FUD and other rumors. This is AMD telling you)

It doesn't take a genius to work it out.

I think he's just arguing the technicalities of that it can't be delayed if they never officially announced the release date, and any release dates mentioned were by people under NDA. In my opinion it doesn't really matter that much because it's only 2 weeks. They'll be here before we know it.
 
just out of interest - any reason why they cant launch cayman and 6990 simultaneously (6990 is likely to be two speed-binned cayman's on the same circuit board isnt it after all?)

No marketing reason not to (completely different price points etc etc)

Several reasons why they may want to (starting with beating nV in 2010 lol)
 
No one knows, but realistically a 6970 will at least be on par with a 580, a dual GPU cayman will be silly fast.
 
+1

I waited 6 months for Fermi to be released. Now that was a long wait. :(

So let me get this straight. You waited for 6 months only to receive a expensive, hot, crippled fermi core . Which you then WC for god knows how much? Only to find out that proper fermi comes out 5 months later?

Thats epic!

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No I bought 2 of the fastest gpu's which overclock really well, good DX11 performance, upto 64xAA, TRSAA, small hit when AA is applied, maxes out all my games at 1080p etc and added it to my watercooling setup. I have been enjoying these gpus for 6 months and will continue to do so for a long time to come. ;)

Awesome gaming cards.
 
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Tempted to buy a 580 now lol, should I? Not sure if my 3.2 oc is too low and that running at x8 speed will hold it back (controller card in second PCI-E 2.0 slot, it forces x8) :eek:
 
Tempted to buy a 580 now lol, should I? Not sure if my 3.2 oc is too low and that running at x8 speed will hold it back (controller card in second PCI-E 2.0 slot, it forces x8) :eek:

I couldn't be asked waiting. AMD have fumbled this launch.
Had they released something juicy about 6970 maybe. But the silence is deadening.
 
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