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

[Pantsu]

GK104 is the mid-range part. If the rumors hold true, it's a 768 shader 384-bit monster of a midrange part that should easily fly in comparison to even the GTX580. GK100 is the high-end, and it's supposedly 1024 shaders and a 512bit bus.

It's going to end up a clash of the titans for sure.

Yes, it would be interesting to see Nvidia and AMD on a level playing field if the rumors about GK104 end up true. GK104 according to estimates would be 50% larger than GF110. Tahiti is 65% larger than Cayman according to the OBR architecture slide. All in all they should be fairly even considering GF110 is around 15% faster on avarage compared to Cayman. Especially if AMD improves tessellation performance and Nvidia has more even improvement.

[DilTech]

Yes, it would be interesting to see Nvidia and AMD on a level playing field if the rumors about GK104 end up true. GK104 according to estimates would be 50% larger than GF110. Tahiti is 65% larger than Cayman according to the OBR architecture slide. All in all they should be fairly even considering GF110 is around 15% faster on avarage compared to Cayman. Especially if AMD improves tessellation performance and Nvidia has more even improvement.

In my eyes this is probably the most exciting pre-release build up since the G80 and R600 (before we found out about all the delays, when we expected it on time) because it's the first time both teams have brought new architectures to the table since that generation. As such, even though we know the rumored specifications, we have no idea about each teams architectural efficiency per unit in all honesty. We can make guesses based off that fact--but, until the release of each we can only make a slightly educated hypothesis on the subject.

I really wish the CPU battlefront was as competitive as the gpu side of things.

[Zoran]

I really wish the CPU battlefront was as competitive as the gpu side of things.

Better not, or we will change 6 sockets a year with intel