Hmm what to do now....
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Hmm what to do now....
lot of people are hired by nvidia to spread fud on forums.
so does 6970 have 1920 sps or not ??
that makes me sad ... very sad .....
Give it 6 months and you might have the 1920 version out. AMD's 580GTX :p:
Going 1920sps would mean going outside their small efficient single chip strategy. Since they started the dual gpu card as halo card strategy they've stuck to it. This epic long thread and others like it across the net is proof that it will be wishful thinking for them to deviate.
i think theres room for two more cards, 6980 and 6990; one 1920 and one dual gpu. Jan will be an interesting month thanks to ces.
I think your missing the point? They didnt go with there new architecure because tsmc fooked them around so they had to stick to there current 45nm instead of moving forward and had to cut back the shader count... I say wait for 6990 instead of turning this thread into a flame war..
For the people waiting on drivers to fix the performance, we're still waiting on those for the 2900xt aswell! :p:
These cards are decent enough to make me question purchasing a GTX570, which I wanted really badly up until this morning. Now I'm wondering if the extra memory and maybe a little better performance is worth losing folding power and display capabilites for. Seriously tough decision:shrug:
You gave your own evidence for driver improvments. How did the GTX 480 go from 15-20% faster than the 5870 at launch to less than that since then? And that's including the fact more Nvidia friendly titles have been released since (e.g. LP2, HAWX2).
Hint: the 5870 got some major boosts
Big difference is that the 2900XT's were quickly shelved/forgotten... they were around only 6 months.
Biggest evidence for driver changes is the fact that 69xx performance ranges everywhere from well above 5870 to only 5870 and occasionally below. Methinks the change from VLIW5->VLIW4 is a big issue, because code has been so heavily optimized for VLIW5 since 4800's AND 5800's have been using it. Makes no sense for 384 SIMD card to be less than 320 SIMD unless there's some issues with compiling vector instructions
See: 5870 release scores/benches (below 4870X2 performance) to today's #'s (just 10-20% below the 480/570 depending on the review you look at).
Also, what display capabilities are you looking for? If you're going single card, there isn't much display wise the 570's can do the 69xx's cant at this point
What they did is massively improve the back end of the design ,all on 40nm.Now all they will do is use 28nm to scale up SP count,IMO big time. I can see 2xVLIW4 we have in Cayman,with 28nm version of NI. They are already awfully close to 580GTX with Cayman XT,especially in high resolution new DX11/tessellation heavy games. If AMD and NV effectively double the compute power with next gens,we may have a deja vu next year:AMD having 5-10% less performance with 36-40% smaller die- a clear design efficiency advantage at the same node.
"AMD Antilles DUAL GPU info (or rumor) thread- NO FANBOYS ALLOWED :D
If i am not mistaken at 28nm will be Keplar, new arch. If AMD keeps same arch just doubles shaders it might be different ball game vs Keplar.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3793/nvidiakepler.jpg
6970 because of Bitstreaming audio.