Quote Originally Posted by Chickenfeed View Post
What we need is a highly efficient method of scaling multiple cores and SLI/Crossfire isn't it. I won't touch a 4870x2 if its merely plain jane crossfire. For consistency's sake I'd more likely get a single GTX280 and be done with it. Hopefully AMD will prove us all wrong.
They better have thought of a better way to do it, they have been working on this for 2 years and that has got to account for something. ATI already said to themselves that they would never do any big chips any more around the time they launched R580. R600 was way too far into development, so they had to release that and that is also their last big chip. So they basically started working on this multi GPU concept around the time R580 launched.

@Sr7, it was extremely unlikely that RV770 would have a separate clock domain for the shaders as this would require a major design change and their chip would be based on RV670 as so many have said. The would have to redesign their shaders to be able to make them run at much faster clocks than the rest of the architecture and these the shaders would probably get at least twice as big as their current shader are.
BTW doesn't power consumption scale relatively linear with increase in transistor count, but it scales exponentially with increase in clocks, isn't that right?