Quote Originally Posted by marten_larsson View Post
For Antilles I was thinking maybe AMD is going the 5830 x2 route, use some cut down version of Cayman with a bit lower clocks to keep it <300W. This would also make the assumed 6990 name more reasonable IMO.
Exactly what I wrote. If AMD is thinking of staying within 300W I think the route that would make the most sense would be to take two Barts cores. It would be 10-15% faster than 5970 thanks to the impressive CF scaling. And the naming would make sense too (6970 to 6990 would be a small increase in performance and price)