Quote Originally Posted by FischOderAal View Post
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.
Scraps to fight it's own GTX580, GTX480 etc..? That wouldn't make any sense. Even for scarpe, as you put it kindly.

GTX570 is meant to fight AMD's next move, for sure. You may argue it's mean to fight 6950, but I personally think this timing is indicating that it's meant to drop on 6970. We have to wait and see.