Quote Originally Posted by Rai View Post
A lot of that is based on unknowns, how will games scale 4D - 5D, how will the launch drivers be, etc. The GTX 580 seems only okay, there's definitely an opportunity for AMD to strike a heavy blow here if they can pull it off/if they are again looking to compete in the high end single gpu segment. I'm hoping they deliver though.
1 Question.

1. Would AMD switch to vliw4 if there was only negative changes?
No.

So, at worst case, vliw4 is equivalent to Barts in performance.

Would 71% shaders extra to a barts architecture plus double the frame buffer and a new tess engine provide a big performance increase?

There's your cream.