Quote Originally Posted by RaV[666] View Post
Completely reworked architecture, move to VLIW4 ,new tessalation unit, higher memory thoroughput, all of the enhancments that are in barts already, higher power consumption yet 2xchip Antilles cards ,BIG die,a first for ati from the 2900 days, which in itself should bring around 2x performance of barts.Of course there is possibility that it will fail like fermi did, however if it was going to flop, having cypress still around, amd wouldnt launch it, but they are gonna in a month.

What new GTX580 brings to the table ?The situation about alleged GF110 is much less clear than cayman.Pretty much no real info at all, besides the fact that it will be faster than 480.
You see, some people has been speculating/guessing about all kind of great stuff that Cayman will bring. They repeat the same speculation in all forms and shapes that finally the whole wolf-pack believes it. Just have a look at cayman-thread you'll see what I mean.

If these kind of "speculations" should be the base of discussion, then I've had a tip a few days ago, before we knew 580 was real. Back then I said, i think 580 will drop from clear sky right on cayman's release. And then, we can expect it to beat/match cayman. Because this timing would require a lot of self-confidence from nVidia.


Now we know 580 is real, but nobody knows for sure about the balance between 580 and cayman yet, but nVidia's timing for this release shows a confidence that indicates they have a good card on hand.