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Little correction for you... Both the HD 2900XT and the FX5800 were FAR less efficient than fermi. The HD 2900XT consumed more power than even the 8800GTX, while performing far under, for example. Fermi at least had the performance lead, neither of my examples could say that.
Show me an AMD chip from the 7 series that you could buy 6 months ago.
That would've happened, had TSMC not of cancelled 32nm. It was that cancel that pushed back both southern islands and kepler.
Exactly, and that is the point of my statement. Saying GCN was "supposed" to be released in 2010 adds nothing to the argument that Kepler high end chip is late. GCN wasn't released in 2010 but 6970 was, even if late.
Its pointless to dwell in "what ifs", you should deal with what is, and GCN is now competing with Kepler and that is the correct comparison to make. You don't compare architectures by when they should have come out.
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"Entire top-to-bottom fresh lineup"??? I count 4 models of HD7xxx cards currently being sold. The HD6xxx series had 10 card models in it. How on earth can you claim that the current line-up of 4 cards is a top-to-bottom fresh lineup? LoL.
It's only been 6 weeks since HD7970 was released. AMD typically releases video card product lines every 1-1.5 years apart.But seriously, I think Tenerife is planned to fight Big Kepler (gk110) in a couple of months
That being said.... there is absolutely no chance of AMD releasing an HD7970 refresh in a couple months.
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At the same time, 7870-7850 are waited, for the 7march if i dont do a misstake...
( 7970 have been in store since the 9 Jan, 7950 have follow the 31th Jan, 7770-7750 on Fev.. ) .... all in one they will have 6 cards out in some days.
Now you are right and i doubt too AMD will release a refresh before the end of the year... whatever it will be called, maybe end of Q3, but most sure for Q4. They will maybe be some cards for take place in between in Q2, but yet again rumors. ( 7790-7830-7930 or whatever they call them. )
In general AMD release the cards for Oct, November, when they dont wait about the production process to be ready.
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6 months? lol math skills apparently aren't what they used to be....
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