Amd Volcanic Islands details

[tajoh111]

It is?

GK110 seems to go back and forth between Tahiti in GPGPU benchmarks, and that's at a significant die size advantage. GCN seems like it's at least as good at general purpose tasks architecturally (a theoretical Tahiti scaled up to GK110 proportions would likely thrash GK110 in the majority of GPGPU benchmarks), though Nvidia obviously has a software advantage with CUDA.

The drivers haven't been made for quadro k6000 yet so I don't think we can judge it yet.

As far as a compute card, tahiti is just so so for a next gen card. IT performs well for consumer purposes but not so well in the professional space. The firepro w9000 cards had tahiti and quadro 6000 fermi basically trading blows in the reviews available online(tomshardware and hothardware). Considering the computer power of tahiti it should simply decimate fermi but it doesn't.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...mark,3265.html
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMDs-...vidias-Quadro/

If AMD puts too much of a gaming emphasis on Hawaii, it's going to screw up the gains it made with tahiti. And particularly in the professional market, AMD needs to make bigger improvements, even more so than the gaming market for its top end card.

How well AMD big chips perform in professional spaces is what's going to make them money not so much its consumer performance(at least not for the next 3 years).