AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[safan80]

Forget that, 5970 owners need to wait until 28nm or 7xxx or gtx 6xx cards before they want to upgrade.

The 5970 is underutilized in most games and is overkill for anything that is not an eyefinity setup.

But if your making a new card purchase now, most if not all reviewers are giving the nod to the gtx 580 over the 5970(even with a 500 dollar price) because future support is going to be much better and their are still erratic games as f1 2010 demonstrate in the hardwareheaven and Hardocp review show. This should be extremely embarrassing considering this is an AMD branded game and the game has been out for 3 months.

The gtx 580 is not that crazy good. Its good enough for this generation and so is the level of performance offered by the 5970. Cards that are alot faster are not needed for anything other than eyefinity and maybe crysis 2.

While I agree that 5970 owners can wait (at least those running 1920x1200), I disagree about faster cards not being needed. 1920x1200 is cpu limited in most cases these days, but 2560x1600 is not. Check the performance of BF2:BC and Metro at 2560x1600, in most reviews the frame rates are a joke even with SLI 580s. Not only do we still need faster cards, but we also need more video memory. At my res (2560x1600) 1GB or 1.5GB per gpu just is not enough we need 2GB of video memory. Games at 2560x1600 in a lot cases minus direct console ports are fully loading the 5970 no problem, even playing the new Need for speed: HP I've experienced the Need for more video memory and it runs both gpus at 98-99%. For the 5970 user the GTX580 is a lateral move not an upgrade.


edit: As for F1 2010 it's made by Codemasters, not known for testing everything out before they ship. However, they do make patches.