Quote Originally Posted by Sam_oslo View Post
nVidia's new move to prepare GTX570 seams to be a preperation against 6970 too. The timing suggest that strongly.
Or maybe because they have some scrap chips with little defects I doubt ever GF110 is fully functional, even with a matured 40 nm process.

I wouldn't use the GTX570 as any indicator for HD 6970. Although I'm pretty sure NVIDIA has one of the best ideas of how HD 6970 will turn out.