Quote Originally Posted by spursindonesia View Post
LOL, Bart will be a great x7xx chip if 32 nm process wasn't canned, but happens, and there's just so much you can do on the same process. Increasing absolute performance while increasing performance/$, performance/die area, and performance/watt aka overall efficiency at the same time, increasing product value for costumer somewhat (a US$ 229 HD 6870 Bart that's faster than 299 US$ HD 5850 of today is indeed giving more value for costumers, right ?) while making good progress for the company's bottomline altogether, all achieved using the same TSMC's troubled 40 nm process, and you guys already shooting so much flak to AMD ??
i'll tell you why AMD is getting flak.

their shader architecture has not changed much in 3 years. they barely had any innovations in evergreen, and it was only 50% faster than last gen. this is not an exciting upgrade for most even with dx11.

TSMC does not have a troubled 40nm process any longer. the blame game is very fun but failures are not always caused by uncontrollable events aka excuses. TSMC does a good job for the most part. most of the people who criticize them dont know what they are talking about. furthermore, there is a lot you can do on an existing process. AMD can improve their architecture and physical design on 40nm by a nice margin.

faster gpu's are demanded by consumers. someone must supply this good. in this case most are expecting AMD to deliver due to nvidia's hot mess on a pcie slot.