Quote Originally Posted by zalbard View Post
Let me quote this -again-.
Moar rumours inc:

So this time instead of ~370mm^2 it's 389mm^2 (around 2.64B transistors) vs 520mm^2 (some say 530mm^2; around 3B transistors, some say up to 3.2B). No matter how you look at it it appears that 6970 has a much higher transistor density, or some numbers just don't add up...
Worst case scenario for AMD (389mm^2):
2640 / 389 = 6.79
Best case scenario for AMD (370mm^2):
2640 / 370 = 7.14
Best case scenario, 3.2B for Nvidia:
3200 / 520 = 6.15
Worst case scenario for Nvidia (3B, 530mm^2):
3000 / 530 = 5.66
amd had a significantly higher transistor density than nvidia since the 3870 series