New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

[demonkevy666]

So you're not pissed at all that 6870 has about the same performance as 5870, as long as the generation increase is not due to a shrink?
For me, a generation increase means a performance increase, that's about it. Maybe power consumption reduction is acceptable as well. If power consumption is half of Cypress, I don't really mind if 6870 has the same perf as 5870. I did say a power reduction would warrant a generation increase but as far as I am concerned, I wouldn't upgrade from 5870 to 6870 just for less power.

I'm pretty disappointed actually. I have more ATi cards than nvidia. Hell, I prefer ATi before nvidia, if performance is comparable (GTX 460 is *just* everyone's cards these days though). The good thing is, none of the renaming etc matters to me, nor anyone here when it comes to buying it themselves. I do have to keep watch when I buy notebooks though, they're renamed infinite number of times (nvidia being a worse offender), and I tried a laptop with 8 CUDA cores.. ugh. Then a 32 cuda core one (hell, branded as 9600MGT)...good, but 4330 is better. meh, I should've stucked with ATi.

I'm just hoping for rumours to be rumours. Anyway, sticking to my trusty 4890.

Or maybe I'm just about to get used to seeing ATi's performance leaps they keep showing.

it doesn't surprise me they said the next generation would be a hybrid design of current and new architectures

ATI cards are more versatility since all of them can do Crossfire X up to 4 card.

SLI only go's down to 450 gts and tri sli only starts at 465 gtx on up and 4 way SLI is for only two cards 470 gtx and 480 gtx

I've been looking over Nvida tesselstion and they get 99.6 % scaling for each tessellation unit in the SIMD arrry would should be next to impossible 99.6% for each one.

it's suspicious Scaling performance for that many units.

While and ATI unit is one gpu adding another is 1.9 times faster and another after that varies, but in heavy Tessellation it's prefect (2 5850 vs 3 5770)

1) nope not pissed at all, die shrink alone is relevant if it does not offer anything different/new.

2) Performance or new features counts as a new gen, because not everyone needs more performance but may want new features.

What if shrinking was never an option that would not mean that there could never have new generations with more efficient architecture & features.

Too many people are hangup on the shrinking & that it alone defines new gen without any changes.

3870 - 4870 wasn't a shrink ?
slight redesign and bump in size.
this looks similar.