Quote Originally Posted by informal View Post
Actually perf./mm^2 is much much better with Cayman. Even though it's a bit larger chip(380mm^2?) than Cypress,card based on Cayman XT (6970) should be 1.3-1.5x faster than 5870. That's a whole other level of perf./mm^2 when compared to ~530mm^2 Fermi. Mind you both are made on 40nm process node.
I don't really care how each performs relative to the size of the dye. I only care about actual performance of the card. I do hope AMD pulls an upset here. I am || this close from ordering a GTX 570 off EVGA's site.