AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[hurrdurr]

You guys "being disappointed" with the product placement slide of AMD: I can't understand you, a month before there was the Analyst Day and there was another product placement slide which placed HD6970 significantly below HD5970... nobody took care of it then, but now people don't want to believe this.

[tajoh111]

You guys "being disappointed" with the product placement slide of AMD: I can't understand you, a month before there was the Analyst Day and there was another product placement slide which placed HD6970 significantly below HD5970... nobody took care of it then, but now people don't want to believe this.

Thats because people for some reason got unreasonably optimistic about this card and generated excuses that the placement on the slide didn't equate to the 5970 being faster than the 6970.

The hype has gotten out of control for this card and people are realizing the gravity of such high expectations. The higher your expectations are, the more likely something is going to let you down. I remember reading 30-40% faster than a gtx 580, 80% faster than a 5870 during this thread.

Noticed the r300 tag has been removed because the original poster realized this card is not shaping into one and such a reappearance is unlikely.