Quote Originally Posted by hurrdurr View Post
The card has 8 plus 6 pin power (which makes 300W) so I think it'll be around 250W, which is consistent with what we have heard until now.

If AMD has managed to keep performance/watt the same as 6800 (5770's perf/watt is around the same as 5870's, for example), we could be looking at a card that's 65% faster than HD6870, which would make it:

- 50-55 percent faster than HD5870.
- 15 percent faster than HD5970.
- 12-14 percent faster than the GTX 580 which according to rumors should be around 15 to 20 percent faster than GTX 480.
While i don't think the situation will be that simple & your numbers are correct (i don't think AMD will make their own version of baconator), i do think your thought brought another interesting question.

Will AMD improve their performance/watt in this mArch ? Stay the same ? or regress ? Because it seems nVidia has succesfully increased their efficiency in this metric, no matter how small it might be perceived.

Well, to be fair, nVidia's predecessor product wasn't exactly an efficient built in the first place, it would be much easier going from horrible to acceptable than improving on a quite efficient design like Cypress boards.