AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

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Not simply benchmarks, but that crysis score is a bit disappointing. Its scores \10% over a 5870 and matches more or less a gtx 580. Crysis recently has been a strong suit for AMD so I expected much better.


Heaven should be better off the bat, but this still seems well below a gtx 580.

Regarding Heaven: *everything* AMD scores lower. The 5970 with a fast i7:



But where does the 5970 game compared to the 580? Exactly why synthetics don't represent real world gaming and why Heaven is pointless to compare overall cards with

FWIW this 5970 score is ~5% more than the one provided, which ought to be proof that the 6970 does have vastly improved tesselation compared to Cypress, though probably not up to nvidia levels

Regarding Crysis, I'd want to see the scores based on the same computer and same run and min FPS.That said, there's two games now (F1 and Crysis) where the Cayman is at least around 580 performance, but we need more games to see where the trend is

As I've stated, Fermi saw some games where it took a ridiculous lead over Cypress, and in some games Cypress was awfully close. There was a huge performance delta / wide variance. What'll be important to see is if Cayman has that same performance delta, or if Cayman performs much closer on average (smaller standard deviation) and thus in some games performs close to Cypress, and in others performs higher.

That ducati guy should have good drivers in the box shouldn't he?

I mean it does appear to have a retail sample which should have good drivers in the box.

The 10.12 drivers are supposedly 1GB in size and have a new Catalyst Control Panel interface, which doesn't appear to be what he has. And PowerTune and AMD Overdrive are supposedly coming with that. Wouldn't be the first time drivers shipped with the CD were out of date