Quote Originally Posted by Craftyman. View Post
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?



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.
The reason the gtx 580 was amazing at the time was there was also such a huge increase in the amount of shaders compared to the old architecture.

From 24 and 8 pixel and vertex shaders respectively to 128 unified at much higher clocks too. These were real shaders too. The r600 was so disappointing because it relied on only 64, 5 way shaders and relied on a new AA scheme which relied on more shaders to do the work.