Quote Originally Posted by nossy23 View Post
So, would people be happy with a card from AMD that has a performance level in the neighborhood of a GTX780/Titan? Sure it would be cool to get lower prices, but at the same time it's worrying. This is AMD's big upgrade, their new gen GPU, not just a GPU that is clocked a bit higher with some optimizations. Nvidias next gen will be out in, what, about half a year after AMD releases their new cards? And if Maxwell delivers even half of what is promised, AMD's next gen GPU is toast.
No worries from the Red Team

My understanding: Volcanic Islands is more of a optimized *tweener* card still in the architectural range of Southern Islands, but a major preparation for the die-shrink to 20nm.

Bigger chip, expanded power-states, higher frequencies (if Bonaire, and Cypress ---> Cayman are any guide) My guess: 5.2 billion transistors, 2688 cores and 440mm2

Not quite a Titan, but Jen-Hsun Huang will be sweating bullets on those GTX780 price drops