Quote Originally Posted by Panther_Seraphi View Post
Wasnt the HD4xxx series surrounded by the same rumours?

Oh it will only have 640 stream processors as the flag ship as its double what they have been doing the past two generations

HD2900 = 320
HD3870 = 320
Assumed HD4870 = 640
Actual HD4870 = 800



So i say lets wait a little bit longer as i can see there being either a memory boost to the chip e.g 384 or maybe a return to 512 ring bus?

Or a dramatic improvement in tessalation in a response to nvidias domination
Yes 3870 and 4870 were both in 55nm but then again 38xx was a copy of 29xx and there was not lot changed it was a simple die shrunk where as 48xx was a redesign.

As it is the 58xx are not copies of the 48xx and this means that the 58xx were also redesigns, the 68xx has to be radically redesigned from the 58xx to achieve any spectacular results but at the same nm it will be rather hard to do.

I agree that tessellation might be improved quite a bit.