I dunno, fake slides or not, Cayman is only ~15% bigger than Cypress. Expecting 50% more SIMD's, even if they're 10% smaller, just doesn't quite fit in 15% more - esp. when you consider you have to include TMU's for each SIMD, and that the graphics engine and ROPS all got overhauled

Granted, 15% seems too big for just 20% more SIMD's as well

Quote Originally Posted by Chrono Detector View Post
Very disappointed with the specs, and WTF did ATI decrease the shader count from 1600 to 1536? WTF that doesn't make any sense.... I would have been happy if it was at 1920 like earlier rumours said, the only good thing that it comes with 2GB of VRAM.
How many times does this need to be said

1536 / 4 = 384 > 1600 / 5 = 320

So in truth, 1536 SP's will perform better than the old 1600 SP's, in everything but synthetics.. but then again, unless you're doing hardcore benching, you probably won't notice that