AMD to launch Volcanic Islands GPU (HD8000s) in 2013

[LordEC911]

Only way to get 60% at 28nm is for AMD to go monolithic while throwing out a bunch of compute features to lower power consumptions which is paradoxical for a large chip.

Well at least you are thinking in the right direction now... though not making the right calculations.

Depending on how well it actually performs in compute tasks, Titan is actually efficient with its size and compute performance. Titan is actually 100 percent faster than a gtx 580(at 2560*1600), which hasn't been said about any flagship over the prior in a while, even with a new architecture, even on a new node. I think the last time this was actually the case was the gtx 8800, because 5870, 6970, gtx 280, gtx 480, gtx 580 don't fullfill that requirement.

LoL, Nvidia got two tries to get close and in truth 100% over GTX580 is stretching a bit. More like 70-80% which has been done.
So what is the 4870?

I remember you saying similar things about the 6970 over the 5870 and we all know how that turned out.

I apologize for getting performance target data from old designs...
Though to toot my own horn I was right on the money with almost everything about Tahiti.