AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[maoklein]

i've been reading this thread since page 1 -- actually, others cayman related as well -- and i believe i haven't heard of crossfire scalability on caymans yet.

surely, that would be something that only reviewers and costumers with the real cards at hand could attest to, but since this is a rumor and speculations thread ...

in topics (cause i'm not very articulated ):
- what got me thinking is that the gtx580 will be tri-sli capable (not sure if this is a cap* or just common sense )
- but since we all know that despite poor scalability quad xfire is a reality, regarding the cypress series, specially on the hd5970 (x2) -- + amd will be releasing another dual chip version (antilles)
- and i`ve read on hardwarecanucks that the barts cards offer an "awesome" scalability in crossfire (x2)

from that i`ve got 2 inquiries:
have anyone heard of this sli limitation on the 580 series?
would that awesomeness on xfire scalability be exclusive to the barts series (and so, more hardware bound, so to speak) or have amd already tweaked the drivers anticipating this ...and so extending its effects throughout the 6k series ...?

what i mean is this: suppose the 580`s are capped to x3 sli, suppose catalyst new installments are "awesome" and they got rid of the bottlenecks that affected the x4 gpu`s (even yielding inferior performance against x3 (5870`s) on some games benchies) ...couldn`t we assume that the ultimate e-peen rig would be composed of x4 caymans (and thus negating the possible 5-10% superior performance of a 580... x3)?

sorry, i`m all over the place and not sure if made my point across. as you can see, lots of doubts ^^ (maybe i could summarize it by saying: any word/expectation on xfire for caymans yet?)

*my doubts are substantiated by this 'rock solid' argument: i saw that on a gtx580 galaxy box, written on a sticker, that was posted on the 580 thread (which would add further to the vagueness of this limit -- and i also know for sure that quad sli`s are possible on the 480`s)

ps it got me 2 years to get a login, another year to post this. so, my next post will be in 6 months back to lurking

edit to add: but then again we`ve got this new fud of driver issues
response to (@)nintendork -- cause i do not wish to surpass my 1 post count : "ultimate e-peen rig" + IF that tri-sli cap is true (for 580`s) then antilles (in xfire, virtually x2, effectively x4) would definately smoke them ...depending on the drivers, i guess. maybe =p