AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[Zloyd]

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Its only a 2-3 week delay so I assume if they want they can increase base voltage a tad bit and increase clocks (simple bios change no?) final fine tuning to get the biggest lead possible. Considering their last chip was 5870 and now they are trying to make something thats 40% faster(to beat 580) thats a challenge(its on the same process they are trying to achieve this afterall)

So just the reasoning I can think of is amd had a lead in time over nvidia and they maybe assumed that it would be a little while yet before 580 showed up. So current cayman was aimed at 480. Perhaps they would be happy for it to play out that way for a bit, release cayman at 500$ steal 480 sales, few months later nvidia has a reply that beats it, no problem amd have sold enough cards by then milked the 500$ bracket drop price of card and beat that single chip with antilles ? Or drop pricing on antilles a bit and put preassure on fastest nvidia card(say they assumed they would have antilles out before 580 @ 650$) .

Another thing I would like to point out is knowing and having a idea about your competitors next card and being able to beat it are 2 different things. I mean amd can have all the idea about intels next gen enthusiast desktop stuff but even knowing so they wont be able to beat it in outright performance so they strategise to make the most of it in other price brackets.

My earlier post had one really big assumption, amd had no idea nvidia had 580 ready already.

Also in terms of just commonsense its like you say the delay is only 2 weeks the reason is probably really simple but we are human we like drama :P