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

[Cold Fussion]

Still not much compared to GF110's die size of 520 mm².
I really hope these cards are going to bring significant performance improvements for gaming, and not just compute and tessellation. Fermi was a big gaming performance leap for Nvidia; however, I don't see this architecture bringing much more for games than some extra processing units (which don't scale that well past Cayman's numbers in the first place).

This is significantly bigger comparatively since Fermi was on 40nm.

[Lanek]

This is significantly bigger comparatively since Fermi was on 40nm.

Huum, well if 28nm process have exist when the GTX480 and Cypress/cayman have been released, im not sure the die size will have change so much ( maybe a little less for both brands ) . They will have been packed with more SP at this time.

I doubt you hope see a Fermi2 ( GTX6xx ) who come with 480/512SP ( 32SP was disabled, but the die size between a GTX480/512 was the same )in 28nm this year, just for reduce the die size. But at least with more SP...