AMD DX11 RV8xx Card Exposed

[Bo_Fox]

NEWS ONTOPIC:

Evergreen, Cypress and Juniper: ATI code names explained
http://vr-zone.com/forums/441732/eve...explained.html

VR-Zone just does not make sense. Why would NV be nervous about a HIGH-end 180mm^2 chip?

Anyway, I hate that Evergreen nickname. Just like with WD's slow-and-Green hard drives, the power savings just aint worth it! Hard drives consume only 10W at most, so why would I want to save 2-3 watts and sacrifice maybe 1 hour on slowly transferring 500GB worth of backup data? I think a lot more electricity would have been wasted on the SLOWWWWW transfer of 5800rpm or so (which WD does not want to disclose, trying to claim that it is truly variable "somewhere" between 5400 and 7200rpm), on the hard drive being in load (not idle) state for so long, and having to keep the rig powered on (wasting more electricity) during the "Green" transfers, and having to waste more of your "Green" time not burning much calories sitting in front of a file-transfer window.

Evergreen just sounds awful, period, and I hope the nickname does not have any literal meaning to it.