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I had to stop by and see what people made of these supposed specs...sounds kind of odd. I can get behind the plausibility of what's rumored from nvidia...low clocks and low voltage to maximize benefits of 20nm...perhaps an extra unit for yields over what seems logical (just like gk110)...It...

What was it, as it's now deleted? Totally guilty as a fantasy-descriptor or more-so spec-assumer, but I truly fail to see what makes sense other than 1792. Be it something like 800/5000 in mobile (super power efficient) to ~1100/7000 (top-end of a realistic reference clock plus fastest...

Is it from Mars or something?

Obviously the XDR2 rumors (which last time I checked no one had signed on to create even though the spec has been around FOR YEARS because everyone hates Rambus) and this conversation are dancing around a question that doesn't have an easy answer. That is, if the mid-range part is 256-bit with...

Undoubtably GF100. It's important to remember GF100 Fermi (Tesla/Quadro) were supposed be full 512sp running at around 750mhz. The actual products were much less, so temper that 3x claim accordingly. The assumption I've been going off is their 'estimation' is relative to Tesla products...

Here I thought you were asking an 'easy' question. Back when DH posted the exact same roadmap (without a pretty slide) in December, they claimed Wimbledon was planned be 25% faster than Blackcomb. That is approx. the exact same difference as 6870->6970 (desktop). It's also about half what...

I meant 11.4. Whoops. You know what I meant. :) (Lombak/Thames) Thames, of course, is the smallest rumored member of the 28nm mobility generation. Judging by the suffixes, Lombak is it's fitting Sunda Island desktop/workstation counterpart. It's said (by 3-month old DH info) to be 128-bit...

Here I was, hoping it was because they were going to be more-or-less replaced by that addition found in the 10.4 Cats...and it would launch to be paired with Llano. /Dreaming (BTW, why is noone talking about that...Isn't it huge news?)

I think it depends on how you define family. I think there is a distinct chance AMD could start launching a family this year, but the largest chip would need to be fairly small. IE ~Barts/RV770ish; enough to put them back on top in each segment; if production gets that far in time. It could...

Yes, I would implore you to look at TPU, for example, that show the array of resolutions and the differences between them, while also being a much wider array of games (including pretty much everything from your link) that you can look at individually. Cayman actually (comparably) performs...

Question for you, sir. Good or bad way to look at things (on average): After special function, this arch should be shooting for 3.25-3.4 shaders per rop per cluster. That, to me, seems the average shader usage on both architectures after SF. IE, if we figure doing special function at the...

I pretty much agree, yet vehemently disagree. I agree Cayman would be pretty well maxed out at 1792sp (<10% more perf from SIMDs), but that is more than 24. Anything above that appears pointless as far as I can tell...and I've come at it from A LOT of different angles. I don't doubt the...

On topic: So how long until MSI (for example) changes the max TDP allotment from AMD's spec to the max PCIe spec for the dynamic clocking? Should we expect something like that soon, or rather rely on complete disabling of the 'feature' from someone like W1z? While it makes sense for both AMD...

Isn't it because of such cases '11 is being delayed? Also, before or after this, which may just be semi-accurate? I assume from your former former post the release 'delay' is from a prolonged decision-making process on SIMD counts and/or clocks for at least one of the parts. If that...

Perhaps I'm reading too far into things, but the slides seem to show something else interesting as well. I imagine others thought this was the case before-hand as well, and also picked up on it, but I'll point it out if needed for Charlie-like reference later. While the architecture diagram...