Quote Originally Posted by Klarko View Post
Why are people expecting the 6890(6870?) > 5890?
you mean "why expect 6970 / cayman to be faster than 5970 / 2x cypress?"

okay so lets get a reality check:



6800 (barts) is smaller than 5800 (cypress), but performs slightly better under the same power. which means if amd did nothing but use two 6800 barts in one product, it could ALREADY BEAT 5970.

but they aren't doing that. they are building a new, bigger, better chip. they can find NEW ECONOMIES OF SCALE. they can use NEW TECHNIQUES.

think of it like this. GF100 / gtx 480 is almost 2x the size and 2x the power of the competition. but nvidia knew this all along. nvidia designed a big, high power, high performance chip. but the performance didnt happen. the engineering failed to deliver the performance.

so now imagine amd trying this. trying their own huge chip, but not screwing it up.