New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

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What exactly is that vapor heatsink? Something new?

IIRC at least Nordic Hardware was touting about the new cooling technology of having a vapor chamber in the bottom of the heatsink for R800 products back in summer of 2008. Afaik, that wasn't the case... Maybe now?

Sapphire has been using vapor heatsink (their Toxic products, and now their Vapor-X'es) since the Radeon HD 3xxx. AMD used it for 5970 reference design.

IIRC the 67xx isnt the new architecture, its a slightly modified Cypress with different clocks/PCB with some SP's disabled most probably

I might be wrong, but I do trust the source.

I believe that's some pretty old info.