More 6970 slides

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http://vr-zone.com/forums/939375/69xx-slides.html

 

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What I don't get is all the TBDs in the slides, wtf?? This is supposed to be the info released about the 6970 when the NDA is up and some key specs are still under wraps?

Yes NDA was today but got bumped to mid December

 

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I'm expecting it to be ~GTX 580 performance, I think the delay is all about little tweaks to power and clock speeds so it ends up being just enough faster than 580 to claim the single GPU crown (~5%).

 

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The question now is, wot else can the 6970 offer besides performance.

For me hopefully lower priced 580s as that's where I'll be going unless the 6970 thrashes the 580 which isnt at all likely

 

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What I liked is the tessellation slide Not sure if it's because they are tuning the existing tessellation unit (which they have adapted to distance check for applying of varying levels of tessellation), or whether it's actually more powerful. Good to see none the less, as it's one of the things that people are wary of, and faster than I expected, games are using tessellation more heavily (hawx 2, metro 2033 etc). Stil doubt you need a mega tess unit but it certainly won't hurt to have a faster unit in there.

They talk about dual tesselators plus some buffer somewhere so I guess it maybe just 2 of the old one that is on the 5870 plus some caching/buffering tom foolery.