Quote Originally Posted by madcho View Post
a bit too small for RV870, do you think ?
Wouldn't be surprised if it was 'only' 180 mm^2, RV670 wasn't much bigger than that. This chip will probably have a higher transistor density than RV740, so my guess would be that it will have around 1,2 Billion transistors at it's disposal. Or if we are really lucky and the previous rumors are true, then this might even have 1,4 Billion transistor, but that seem pretty much impossible in such a small space. Now we only need to figure out how much DX11 cost to implement and then we can guesstimate how many units this chip has. It may actually even clock better than the RV790, so clocks might even be higher.