AMD to Give RV770 a Refresh, G200b Counterattack Planned

[LordEC911]

Would love it but don't see how either unless they really improved the process for less power consumption.

Power consumption, from what I have seen, put the 4870 around the ~140w mark. Still gives them ~20w to work with, plus whatever they might gain from the revision.

I've known about a refresh since the 4870 released......Old news? See my sig... I wouldn't expect "much" however in the department of clock speeds. Think lower power consumption

For those that don't know "little dragon" is supposed to be the codename for the RV770 refresh not the next gen card as rumours would have you think. I would guesstimate late Q1

I'm definitely not rejecting the idea that I do or do not know something or anything or have a source.

Hmmm... I would hope this revision of RV770 would be out before the end of the year, at the very worst early Q1 or else there isn't much point. Late Q1 was the original target date for RV870 which seems to have been pushed back a month or two due to 40nm delays.

I found this comment intriguing, as it goes against the erroneous propaganda some ATI fans keep spreading around about how the RV770 architecture scales in performance with clockspeed increases compared to the G200 series.

You misunderstood them, they isn't what they were saying at all.
What they were saying is that G200 overclocked still performs better than RV770 overclocked, like it should. They are not saying that G200 scales better with clocks than RV770. G200 has what, a ~15-25% performance advantage on average against RV770, so it will still have a performance advantage when both are overclocked.