AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[FischOderAal]

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 personallt think this timing is indicating that it's mean to drop on 6970. We have to waut and see.

Sorry, but what you're writing doesn't make any sense to me. My bet is that GTX480 (GF100, that is) will be EOL soon. GF100 is too expensive and not that suitable for desktop graphics. Maybe they will still produce them in smaller quantities for Tesla, since GF110 lacks in HPC.

And what else should NVIDIA do with GF110 chips that have only 480 functionally shaders? Scrap 'em? No, like the other thread about the GTX570 suggests a card with 480 shaders and a little speedbump over GTX480 coupled with lower power consumption makes most sense to me. Maybe a full GF104 as a GTX560 and the GTX460 will be GT540 or something like that.

We have no news about any chip below GF104, do we? NVIDIA has to fill the Geforce 500 lineup with something

A GTX570 makes sense even if HD 5970 fails to beat GTX580. Then the GTX570 might beat the HD 6950. So the situation would be like what we had with the RV770 and GF100 if I remember correctly (GTX480 > HD 5870 > GTX470 > HD 5850 ==> GTX580 > HD 6970 > GTX570 > HD 6950). I guess that would make NVIDIA quite happy.