AMD Cayman info (or rumor)

[geo]

lol at the tags

[kadozer]

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/12/...second-switch/

Charlie article. Better late than never, and boy he delivers. Take it for what its worth.
The secret of the AMD 6900's second switch

Easy enough, it swaps the shader count. The 'normal' count is 1920 for a 205W 6970 card, and the switch opens up the full force of all 2520 shaders. The reason this switch is set to 'low' is that between the clock speed advances, 730MHz/1920 shaders to 920MHz/2520 shaders, it blows the card through the 300W cap for PCIe cards.

[hurrdurr]

Hahahahahahahhaha

[Florinmocanu]

It's a joke. Check the end of the article

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[geo]

whoa!

[kam03]

Dude you listed two features one of them requires major Crossfire to be useful for games, and you have the nerve to call me a troll. And 7.1 audio over HDMI realy ? there is so many more ways to get audio, your points are laughable. Its equvalent of saying does your card have a green sticker ? no then why buy it.

Oh and keep that warning for your self.

Edit:
Do you even have 6 displays and 7.1 Speaker setup

I was going to wait for 6970 to compare it to 580 before i make a purchase but after some research i have found out that GTX 580 does not support bit-streaming pass-through for Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD Master so its 6970 all th way. Whats the deal with that? the 460's have it

Also you dont need 7.1 for good audio, 5.1 is enough with a good setup.

[safan80]

Also you dont need 7.1 for good audio, 5.1 is enough with a good setup.

Yeah because stereo rules, I mean 2.0 audio. Heck nobody needs that just use mono for good audio.

[kam03]

Yeah because stereo rules, I mean 2.0 audio. Heck nobody needs that just use mono for good audio.

2.0 is ok but if you're a pro gamer and watch a lot of movies then 5.1-7.1 all the way!

[RPGWiZaRD]

Headphones + simulated surround sound FTW!

Cmon how come there's not more tests/results of these cards by now...

[generics_user]

haha love the charlie article

funny thing is that people who claim that unlocking SPs is possible will take it as a source and simply ignore that it's a joke...

[xdan]

http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/...ssage/35199174

That picture is biased, fake or whatsoewer regarding GTX 570 performance
Look at Crysis Warhead, i underline with red:


GTX 570 25FPS ???
And like a dream 6970 beats in all games, regardless the resolution, i don't think so...
No!

[Johnny87au]

2.0 is ok but if you're a pro gamer and watch a lot of movies then 5.1-7.1 all the way!

[Solus Corvus]

That picture is biased, fake or whatsoewer regarding GTX 570 performance
Look at Crysis Warhead, i underline with red:
http://forum.lab501.ro/attachment.ph...0&d=1292304389

GTX 570 25FPS ???
And like a dream 6870 beats in all games, regardless the resolution, i don't think so...
No!

http://forum.lab501.ro/attachment.ph...1&d=1292304389
http://forum.lab501.ro/attachment.ph...2&d=1292304389

Time for a sanity check on your sources. 8xAA is exactly the same speed as 2xAA and 4xAA for all fermi cards? That doesn't sound right.

[Picao84]

Time for a sanity check on your sources. 8xAA is exactly the same speed as 2xAA and 4xAA for all fermi cards? That doesn't sound right.

Have you heard about CPU bottlenecks?

[Dark-Energy]

That picture is biased, fake or whatsoewer regarding GTX 570 performance
Look at Crysis Warhead, i underline with red:


GTX 570 25FPS ???
And like a dream 6870 beats in all games, regardless the resolution, i don't think so...
No!

http://forum.lab501.ro/attachment.ph...1&d=1292304389
http://forum.lab501.ro/attachment.ph...2&d=1292304389

Ahh...yeah.....NO.

All reviewers test their cards differently, in different areas of the game. Perhaps they just tested a more graphically intensive scene?...you don't know that.....do you?....it obviously isn't safe to compare different benchmarks even though they use the same settings.....results differing from other ones could mean anything......like I said before, it's inconsistent because they could have gone into a more graphically intense area.....and what about the hardware that they use? the CPU, ram? Drivers? OS?

Nice try at pulling a fast one though, but it won't get by me.

[safan80]

2.0 is ok but if you're a pro gamer and watch a lot of movies then 5.1-7.1 all the way!

I was using sarcasm my friend. Check my sig I use 7.1 audio.

[Solus Corvus]

Have you heard about CPU bottlenecks?

CPU bottleneck in Crysis at 1920x1200 8xAA? The shape of the graphs don't show any of the typical signs. It's more likely the driver not enforcing AA settings.

[kam03]

I was using sarcasm my friend. Check my sig I use 7.1 audio.

Haha that's what i get for only reading sereo rules from your sentence

[Oliverda]

That picture is biased, fake or whatsoewer regarding GTX 570 performance
Look at Crysis Warhead, i underline with red:


GTX 570 25FPS ???
And like a dream 6870 beats in all games, regardless the resolution, i don't think so...
No!

16xAF maybe?

[db87]

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/12/...second-switch/

Charlie article. Better late than never, and boy he delivers. Take it for what its worth.
The secret of the AMD 6900's second switch

That's total bull. I just red the offical review:

DUAL BIOS option for safer end user updates:
-Setting 1 unprotected for user updates
-Setting 2 protected as factory default

[Dark-Energy]

That's total bull. I just red the offical review:

DUAL BIOS option for safer end user updates:
-Setting 1 unprotected for user updates
-Setting 2 protected as factory default

What? What are you talking about?

State-of-the-art LED switch to 7 different colors? THIS IS GAME BREAKING MAN

300 Watts with 2500 Shaders and 1GHZ core clock on the flick of a switch? R300 x 100000 all over again!

Best of all, it can also serve as a toaster while you blast away mutants in Metro 2033

[SpuTnicK]

Source

The launch is on Wednesday December 15th 5AM Central European Time or 6PM GMT or Greenwich time. Chaps in New York or across east coast will be able to see the card launching on November 15th at 00.00 AM while those from California get a slight advantage and can see the card selling already on December 14th 09.00 PM.

Any one from New York to confirm it?

[kadozer]

So reviews coming tomorrow night and and available at newegg?

[TheBreezyBB]

So, Tomorrow finally this endless thread will END?!

[zerazax]

The discussion then begins!