Nvidia confirms the GTX 580

[tajoh111]

and how long does a major overhaul take in general ????


and how can someone manage higher shader utilisation without increasing the power and its if the games arent allready maxed out by nvidias magical driver team

Thats for the engineers to decide, but its kind of scary that between generations, fermi shader power decreased compared to earlier generations and they took a step backwards. If fermi shaders were as powerful as its older shaders last generation, we would have a card thats pretty close to as fast as a 5970. That is GTX 285 SLI performance + the extra speed of added clocks.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/167?vs=165

The fact that they decreased gaming efficiency and more than double the transistor count shows where all the performance went.

E.g the gtx 460 1gb has similar speed to the gtx 285 even though the gtx 460 has the shader advantage and the core and shader speed advantage.

He isn't dreaming man, but just somewhat, uh, a pessimist & plenty negative when it comes to AMD graphic as of late ?

I'm ready with my internet vacation ticket away from this forum postingwise if his US$ 500+ official MSRP predicition for Cayman XT comes to reality , OTOH if that doesn't happen .......

Besides pricing, performance wise, i think I have been more optimistic for AMD than atleast my expectations for Nvidia. I still have a feeling cayman xt is going to be 500 dollars, especially if it significantly faster than fermi(which I think it will be).