AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[Dimitriman]

Another thing to consider is that maybe AMD didn't make a card based on your expectations but rather based on their own goals.

As interesting as these new screenshots are, they don't tell us the whole story. There are so many unknowns that it is laughable to conclude anything as fact yet. Piling on more speculation isn't going to clarify anything.

ye we can tell ourselves that but how many times before this much info has converged right before release and turned out to be wrong? almost never.
info leaks at this point are 80% true and if several sources are leaking 1600 shaders and gtx570 performance, thats whats likely to come. And talking about synthetics, if we looked at vantage alone I would ignore it but all benchmarks show similar results. When was the last time a card from any camp did mediocre in synthetics and awesome in games? There may be a difference, but it is often not so substantial that would put the card in a different level.
I think at this point wishing for magic drivers and miracle game performance is straight up denial or wishful thinking. Were looking at a competitor for the 570 and thats the truth. 580 will reign supreme as single chip and Amd will throw antilles against it but it will not be as attractive as 5970 was one year ago. Back then it had no competition so people cared less about xfire issues. It will not be the case this time. Many will still take the 580 over antilles for being single chip.

/end rant

and this coming from an Amd customer since 2007