haxxiy on 13 February 2013
| Turkish said: Both GTX780 and HD8970 will have more than 7bn transistors and around 6TFLOPs. The difference with current enthusiast cards will be HUGE. |
Huge, but expected. Probably as much as the 280 > 480 transition, something around 70-80% of performance increase and the usual for 18 months of wait.
However instead of remaining around the same TDP, their power consumption and dissipated heat is going to scale up with the extra power. A full refresh would be expected a year and a half later, but they are delivering about the same thing the 500 series was (while it released a few months after the 400 series, by the way) because the TSMC manufacturing processes can't keep up.
Basically they are faking a real evolution because they have to launch something.
