Radeon HD 7000 Revealed: AMD to Mix GCN with VLIW4 & VLIW5 Architectures

[Craftyman.]

I remember how people were laughing at his posts about bulldozer until bulldozer launch day...

if all you have is hate for a brand, you're gonna be right some of the time. You don't really think that just because he was right about bulldozer means that he'll be right about Southern Islands do you?

ive been looking through this thread and im disappointed in the hate and expectations.

this gen is a 1st gen on a new arch so the drivers will suck, its on a new process affter skipping a gen and having very little test hardware if at all, and it was supposed to be out last year showing up the 5870 and since there were none of thees out they did not get the time to make a hardware changes based on performance needs. so its going to be alot like the 4890 v 5870, with that fight u had a fully working driver with a high clocked reworked core to maximize overclocking vs a heavy change in the GPU on a new process. this will be the same and at launch it wont do much better as the hd6 is the perfected hd5.

so as i see it, if amd gets better than the hd6 at launch it will be a success since if they can keep xfire scaling up, it will let amd keep the performance crown

Wasn't the 8800GTX on a new architecture? That thing turned out to be amazing. Of course, that wasn't AMD...

Anyway I'm just throwing out ideas here.