Quote Originally Posted by zalbard View Post
In fact, I don't understand this. 5870 should be at least as fast or faster than 4890 CF, yet it's lagging behind 4870x2 sometimes. They doubled everything on a single die and even added some caches and optimisations, yet it's not working out well.
its not double everything. i have a hunch this is the achilles heel of cypress. this is the first time geometry performance has not increased. for the record gf100 can set up 4 triangles per clock which is a significant change in architecture and a first for any gpu. so 2.4 billion tris/sec v. cypress with 850 million tris/sec.
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