Quote Originally Posted by DilTech View Post
If this chip is officially the biggest chip ATi have ever released, how does anyone expect a dual-gpu card out of this thing?

I'm not saying it won't be possible, but from a physical side of things how can they pull that off?

Not just from a power stand-point, but a pricing stand-point as well. If this is the biggest core ATi have ever made, that's going to return them to the ultra high-end price bracket I would assume, correct? It's pretty clear this thing will probably not take the old Cypress price points, as I doubt AMD want to make less money per card sold on this than they did with the 5xxx series as it was CLEARLY more work to create. How do you price a board that's essentially 2 of those chips?

Again, I'm not hating on it, I'm just curious as to how they'll pull this one off.
if it's an extremely large chip it would explain the decision to move the naming one notch higher; they only have a single chip 69xx Card which might blow away the 5970 and a 5950 @ gtx 480 level

considering the size/efficiency of 6870 they could make a cypress-sized chip (300mm²) at the same performance level of GTX480 AND a dual-gpu card with this chipwhich is another 50-70% faster

or a 400+mm² behemoth @ 5970 performance without a dual gpu card

i believe that they went with the first option but we'll see in a month or two....