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ATI cuts 6950 allocation

seena said:
If AMD claimed that HD6900 will their new r300

it gotta be something Special
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I've still ONLY seen that from Fud, without any other sources, basically anything direct from AMD I'd actually assume that was disinformation from Fud, as in raise expectations just to see them fail. Wouldn't be altogether surprised if thats what Raven was doing aswell ;)

Thing is, R300 was a piece of excellent design , it also gave great performance. In terms of gpu design and manufacturing, its equally impressive to make a bigger core with a lot more performance, a same size core with a decent improvement, or a much smaller core with about the same speed. From a design and achievement perspective they are all technically just as good as each other, and just as difficult to achieve(actually, the more performance you can get per mm2 is more impressive than just making a core bigger with more shaders, the 5870 really was absolutely nothing special other than coping VERY well with a crap process).

We really don't know, I wouldn't be surprised if Cayman was 20% bigger, with 1920 shaders and very very fast, I also wouldn't be surprised if it had circa 1600, was faster but marginally smaller than Cypress, theres to date, no confirmation its 1920 shaders, or really, much of anything.

The more hyped up its performance gets, the more of a let down it will be though, and I don't wonder if thats not the intention of a couple of posters here, and certainly the intention of some websites.

Thats the one downside to ultra secrecy, at some stage the hype gets TOO big, and your product can't ever be anything but a let down.

Simple fact is, on 40nm process, in the same node a large performance boost will be incredibly impressive.
 
seena said:
Hope that your sources r true
coz otherwise its disappointing
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Fuad says
Our sources indicate that Geforce GTX 580 should end up faster than Radeon HD 6970 at least in many of the popular benchmarks
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"Many" does not mean "all" and also leaves room for "Radeon will be faster in a few of them".

Tessmark and Heaven are popoular benchmarks. Do they represent anything remotely close to gaming performance, though? No! So why get disappointed?

I can bet you right now that the 6970 will be faster in Crysis. Yeah the 2-3 year old Crysis. For me that's more important! :D
 
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maybe photoshopped :(
 
^^^ doubt it very much.
This is the real stuff.

This just shows that they didnt want to put a 580GTX in there.

20% over 480GTX sad.

6970=580gtx so much for 30% over 580
 
It doesn't matter how they perform relative to the NV cards. It's the price that dictates whether the performance is any good or not.

Edit; nice ninja edit Rroff
 
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