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nojustno on 18 June 2009
Slimebeast said:
The ATI 5800 series is going to be amazing. I have that gut feeling.

It will be almost as groundbreaking in performance as R300 (the ATI Radeon 9500/9700 cards). At least I dreamt about it would be so.

Then this article should please you

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,9486.html

 

''AMD is very confident about its coming DirectX 11 lineup and even though it used the same performance level hardware, and not high-end, it claimed it was the fastest single-GPU graphics card on the market. They said that the upcoming launch will be even more of a surprise than when they shocked the world with the 800sp Rv770 GPU, still vague but very intriguing.''

So basically

1. That VERY small ''performance'' segment DX11 chip (180mm2) they showed off a while ago is faster than the ''high end'' segment GTX 285 (490mm2?). Thats insane if true.


2. There will be a surprise, a shocking one.




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Squilliam on 18 June 2009
nojustno said:
Slimebeast said:
The ATI 5800 series is going to be amazing. I have that gut feeling.

It will be almost as groundbreaking in performance as R300 (the ATI Radeon 9500/9700 cards). At least I dreamt about it would be so.

Then this article should please you

http://www.nordichardware.com/news,9486.html

 

''AMD is very confident about its coming DirectX 11 lineup and even though it used the same performance level hardware, and not high-end, it claimed it was the fastest single-GPU graphics card on the market. They said that the upcoming launch will be even more of a surprise than when they shocked the world with the 800sp Rv770 GPU, still vague but very intriguing.''

So basically

1. That VERY small ''performance'' segment DX11 chip (180mm2) they showed off a while ago is faster than the ''high end'' segment GTX 285 (490mm2?). Thats insane if true.


2. There will be a surprise, a shocking one.

1. Performance is also indicated by power consumption, so they could have scaled the chip to some pretty sky high clock speeds. 1Ghz+ would be all they would need with some improved shaders etc to best the GTX 285 since the RV790 is already so close in performance.

2. The surprise for me is if they can get a 256bit GDDR5 interface on such a small die size!



Tease.