Quote Originally Posted by Zloyd View Post
If amd was confident that 6970 was faster than 580 they would be shouting it out from the rooftops for sure, we might still see that in a couple of days, leaked graphs like we saw for 580. I think its going to end up how previous generations have ended up on the single chip front, its going to be about 10-15% slower and its going to be 20% cheaper.

We heard a few noises about 6970 being hot and powerhungry, I think that might be whats delaying the launch, it cant justify its powerconsumption and heat atm ?
That makes no sense. AMD's been on top of their game in terms of efficiency and heat for the past two generations, why would they suddenly hit major problems on a process that they're on their 3rd generation for?

And AMD hasn't released info on their card because it's a HUGE business risk to advertise their product before its release. It's been covered repeatedly throughout this thread, but people repeatedly refuse to understand the business of GPUs.

So I'll put it this way: name the GPUs that have been extremely hyped up that have been successful, and name the GPUs that have been wildly successful that were silent til release.

You'll see a pretty obvious trend