Originally Posted by
flopper
how come people dont ask you what you smoke when saying such things?
If it beats the 580, it be a good thing due to 40nm, and we cant expect miracles even with the 4d set of shaders.
Overclocking it to 1ghz+ however might turn it into a great card.
If r300 rumours are true, then it has to beat the 480gtx by around 80%
as that was what the 9700 did back in the day.(not going there not even whatever I might smoke)
That depends how AMD did reason when they saw what fermi did, and thought, Gee, the upgrade Nvidia are going to do at 28nm gonna be something, so they did their homewerk and produced a slightly bigger chip to crown the single card performance planned at 32nm but adjusted to 40nm which they might cut things out that wasnt needed this time until 28nm.
The size of the card seen as far suggest a powerhungry one.
See, Nvidia knows it, more power, more speed and more performance and forget to save the whales, we let the oceans boil.