AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[tajoh111]

Back to topic.
2x HD6850 have 1920 SPs as well as rumored for HD 6970.
However, tests show, that 2xHD6850 are on a par with HD 5970.
So, we can conclude that in case HD 6970 has 1920SPs, it will perform as HD 5970, or even better(don't forget higher clocks )

If it perform's like xfire 6850's. I am pretty sure they would have released it already. Paper launch or not, it would have put a pretty strong damper on the gtx 580 launch in addition to raise the 6xxx namesake, to increase sales of the 68xx cards even further.

Not only clocks. Don´t forget new 4d architecture, more TMUs, 2 tesselation units, more VRAM.

They are not going to double everything unless they want the card to consume 300 watts + be 500mm in size.

I think the 3-4 tesselation performance is bull. Synthetics show the greatest difference in tessellation performance. People rationalizing that Cayman could be 2-3 faster in synthetics and even faster in games by the vagueness in the rumors shows how misplaced their rationality is.

Synthetics are coded to specialize in showing maximum prowess of a certain aspects. Drivers are specifically coded for them to maximize performance, hence why Nvidia kept on bragging about unigine heaven.

We won't see faster tessellation in games compared to synthetics. Be rational people.