Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
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Tajoh, ive been hearing that Cayman was originally designed for 28/32 nm as well.

Thinking about it some more, it makes sense. As GPU's take years to go from design to being finalised, I am sure the architecture after Cypress was designed with 28/32 nm in mind. Its not like the transition from 45 to 32 nm was taking too long so AMD just decided to modify the Cypress core here and there and sell it as Cayman in a few months. Also, the fact that 67xx seem to be modified Cypress cores means that Cypress would be cheaper to manufacture than a dumbed down Cayman cores, which might happen due to the fact that Cayman will be bigger in size compared to Cypress since, again, it was designed for 32nm.

Power consumption apparently seems to have gone up in comparison to Cypress as well. Hmm.

Also, you do need to realise that 67xx are going to replace the 58xx cards. I doubt AMD would price their midrange 67xx cards at current 58xx prices. Hence from what I feel, 68xx will be priced slightly more than 58xx, and 67xx are going to fill up the $150 - $200 market.

Of course I might be wrong