AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[zalbard]

this card hd 6950 use the same hd 6970 pcb

Unlock 6950 into 6970 the same way as GTX465 unlocks into GTX470?!

Nice, looks like the same PCB, it's even got the magical switch of mystery on it!

This is for dual BIOS, afaik.

Very soon, probably in one week. Prototype has been built for a quite a while now.

Awesome! Please post the screenshots as soon as you can (NDA lift, etc).

here some more nice insiders information about the 6970 single and CF;

According to Neliz @ gathering of tweakers forum:

''6970 is 50% sneller in Furmark dan een 580, om even te laten zien dat er niet (of minder) aan throttling doet.

tevens zie ik een benchmark met 87fps @5760x1080 in batman:aa

6970 CF zou ook tussen 10% en 50% sneller moeten zijn dan 480 sli op die resolutie.
6970 is tussen de 10 en 30% sneller dan de 570 in de meeste benchmarks''

Translated (dutch is my mother tongue so sorry for some misspelling):

The 6970 is 50% faster in Furmark than the GTX 580, to show that there is non or much less throttling involved.

Furthermore he saw a benchmark with 87FPS @ 5760x1080 with Batman:AA.

The 6970 in CF will also be between 10% and 50% faster than the GTX 480 in SLI with that resolution (5760x1080).

The 6970 is between 10 and 30% faster than the GTX 570 in most of the benchmarks.

This sounds very promising if true. Bring it on, AMD!