ts ts ts, its painful to see all the trolls starve to death in this thread as theres not even a chunk of bone of info for them to chew on

come to think of it, i did hear 2000sps as the next step after cypress loooooong time ago... (before cypress launched)
but i really hope cayman is more than that, i mean come on, the ipc tweaks wont be massive and 1600 to 2000 is a 25% boost only...
but if the die size numbers are true, then it cant be more than 2000 really... :/

i would have loved to see a 2400sp monster with a 250W+ tdp...
but then again, it probably would have been very expensive and going dualgpu wouldnt really have made sense anymore...
i mean think about it, if your in the same tdp envelope as a dual gpu card almost, then theres not gonna be a big perf boost by going dualgpu, so then you pretty much kill the dualgpu option... since ati continues to rely on dual gpu, that caps their highest single gpu cards to be around 200W, and again more than 2000sps would have meant way low clocks and wouldnt have been much faster than 2000sps...

2000 sps sounds a bout right for 400mm2, thats a 25% boost, then add a 15% ipc boost, which i think is generous, and you got a 40% boost over a 5870, which puts it in 580 territory. might beat it, but not notably...

and after all, justifying a 580 is already hard to do with the lack of nice dx11 games out there...
so a monster cayman wouldnt really have been useful would it?