AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[Mad Pistol]

I swear to god i saw 2 units for pro and 3 units for xt somewhere in an amd slide. but since it was a while ago take it with a grain of salt. but imagine those same 3 units in each of antilles cores.

I just pray that Tessellation is beefed up enough to be competitive with Nvidia's offerings. As of right now, it's not important. However, it will become important in the near future. Tessellation is the new "shader." It's a novelty that will make games look that much more impressive without a lot of extra work.

I really hope AMD sees it that way. Otherwise, the GTX 580 may win, and nvidia may gouge prices again. I seriously want a big, fat, price war so that we can't make a bad decision on which ever card we choose. I hate it when this market becomes one sided.

Here's the way I see.

First, there were vertex and texture mapping.
Next, we got pixel shaders
Then, we got enhanced lightmaps.
Then, we got self-shadowing characters and advanced lighting.
Then, we got HDR.

And NOW, we're on Tessellation.


So who's going to win this race?