AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[zerazax]

It doesn't even make logical sense for the card to be on single digit yields. I didn't even believe Fermi was in single digits, and Fermi is much larger and more complicated

So somehow AMD, which delivered the entire Evergreen family + Barts on time on 40nm, who is on their 3rd generation of 40nm products, is having issues with their chips much smaller than GF100/GF110... even Charlie couldn't write this story

Got a message a few days ago that the GTX 580's throne might not be as expected, performance of the 6970 is extremely impressive, at least on the same performance class as the 580.



6970 loses out on synthetics (Vantage is likely) vs 5970, but (way) better in games, bad drivers now, probably has ample room for improvement.


People have cards // NOT everyone has drivers yet

Sounds interesting. Way better than games would be awesome... single GPU > previous dual GPU is awesome when one considers the previous dual GPU was far and away the top dog