Quote Originally Posted by ilkkahy View Post
I realised that this thread is almost as epic as this Fermi-thread:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ighlight=fermi

Last two intresting and hyped graphic card releases made about 2000 replies and 200 000 views. I wonder is there some pattern to it ?

My optimistic guess is that 6970 will be about as fast as 570. If its faster, thats even better.

edit. i noticed Fermi-thread continued to other threads so Cayman hype isnt even half of what Fermi was..
i remember before that there was the R600 threads, now those were epic, I still remember reading some crazy rumor that R600 scored 30K 3dmark06 single card on a stock processor. that has to be the most ridiculous rumor in GPU history. that card was more over-hyped then Fermi by far. because it was the first ATI card changing from pixel pipelines to Stream Processors most people thought that the shader units were directly comparable to the Nvidia ones. and considering how fast the 8800gtx was most people thought the 320SP's on the 2900xt were going to blow Nvidia out of the water... and what did we end up with, a hot, power consuming card (invention of the 8pin PCIE) that performed lower then a 8800GTS... at least Fermi was a good bunch faster then the 5870...

I don't think this will be a R600 repeat at all but I do think it's being overhyped by a long shot. Im thinking 6970 comes in just slower then the 580 and the 6950 just slower then the 570. Think about it the GTX 570 is just as fast as the GTX 480. Considering the difference between the 570/480 and the 5870 for the 6950 to beat the 570 with LESS SP's then the 5870 and a lower clock speed... that would be a feat and a half