| Soleron said: Clocks are not going to be higher. Die size is not going to go up. |
Are you suggesting that it will be a straight up rebrand? I think that would defeat the purpose of releasing an HD8970. If AMD just wanted to straight up rebrand the HD7970 series, they would have done it already as they did for the OEM market. I think Sea Islands HD8900 is going to be revised from HD7970 but we don't know how much faster it will be due to TDP constraints. I'v read rumors of die size growing to 410-420mm2, and transistor count rising to about 5.1B. I am expecting it similar to the refresh of HD5870--> HD6970 where tessellation units where improved and performance went up about 15%. Or do you think AMD will just relaunch a more energy efficient HD7970GE, call it HD8970 and drop the price to $399?
