AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[spursindonesia]

Now your seeing what I was trying to get at before. Atleast if your not being sarcastic. If the gtx 580 was not released at all, pricing could be potentially worse too.

Not really, you were suggesting that AMD will put US$ 500 or more MSRP price tag on Cayman XT, i said US$ 479 at most, and that's on the record. What i was trying to say, the market condition (lack of supply and perhaps combined with healthy demand) will drive up the appropiate to aggressive official pricing from AMD into higher street price level, like what has been happening with Barts XT & Pro case.

Don't worry, if Cayman XT was indeed priced (MSRP) OFFICIALLY by AMD @US$ 499 or more, i'll keep my bet & stop posting for the next 6 months.

wow... thats dissapointing...
6000 is 10% more efficient/sp/clock and only has 320sps more... which is a mere 17% more than 5000...

so at the same clocks (and i doubt itll come clocked notably higher) 6970 will only be 27% faster than a 5870... and thats an UP TO... if geometry is limiting it will be more, but... when is that actually the case besides tessellation benchmarks?

6970 is definitely slower than the 580 then...
not much, but 5-10% on average i guess...

Try not just counting on SPs amount, but also the SIMDs. Not saying that AMD mArch has been limited in math calculating or shader power, but with this quite revolutionized, new mArch, it might offer better utilization & upped efficiency compared to the current one applied in Evergreen family & Barts chips.

96 TMUs

Decoupled TMUs groups from the SIMD's engine ?

I've heard rumor about AMD's version of nVidia's GPC (Graphic Processing Cluster).

Say 30 SIMDs are divided into 2 "GPC", each with its own setup & rasteriser engine, then each "GPC" with 15 SIMD will be divided into 3 arrays of 5 SIMDs. Each array has 16 TMUs totalling 48 TMUs/"GPC". As a whole, 2 "GPC" with 48 TMUs each will make a 96 TMUs chip. Just a very, very raw speculation of mine, please don't take it too seriously.