Everyone keeps saying that Amd has nothing to lose my releasing early benchmarks but I completely disagree I think they have much more to lose than to gain by doing so. For one Nvidia still needs to do its final tweaks on the gtx 570 which will sell higher numbers than the 580 and will compete with the 6950. So it is none of Amds interest to leak early numbers and give nvidia more time to adjust their chip.
Secondly, how many gtx580 will nvidia sell before Cayman is out? Hundreds of thousands? duzens of thousands? I for one think it cant be more than a few thousand considering their price range, so it is not going to hurt their sales significantly to keep quiet. plus that way you don't run the risk of overhyping your product with an "are you ready?" campaign.
PS: after reading all the posts on the latest discussion one can resume all the responses in two manners:
-Nvidia customer's pov: Amd pr sucks for not leaking early benchmaraks so Nvidia can lower prices and I can buy my gtx580 cheaper...
-Amd customer's pov: Amd is doing right cause they got an awesome chip and they don't want nvidia to find out till launch date plus I don't mind waiting cause I'll be buying Cayman anyway it comes out.
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