On the subject, if it's really pushed to Q1 2011 it's an opportunity for NVIDIA to gain some more market back. 20% over the 5870 is significant but not huge, so there's not much point in waiting for this. Still, the high end is a small part of the market, and AMD has good mid range cards.
Specs and pictures of Radeon HD 6970 slip out
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sMILEY4ever
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It won't.
Technochicken
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That looks about the size of a 5970! Seems somewhat excessive for a single GPU card. I'm scared to think how large a dual GPU one of these would be.
Isn't competition great! I love it when AMD and nVidia seem neck and neck with each other releasing new graphics cards into the market. It's seems like the battle has been brewing well recently. With the recent price reductions, I finally upgraded my 8800 GTS to a 460 GTX and I have been very happy with it. I'm anxious to try multi-monitor gaming so I may just have to pick up another 460 soon.
I find this 20% stuff hard to believe. Beside the fact that its a new core, look at the 3870 to 4870 to the 5870...all were approx 80-90% increases. I bet AMD is just laughing at these articles. They are gonna blow everyone away when they actually release Cayman. Antilles is just going to be a Monster! 
AMD needs more than just 10%. Things are starting to move in nvidia's favor again. AMD needs to strike back with a good card that isn't as expensive as hell.
Look at the size of it, too long... again! they should try and make them as short and as powerful as they can, anyone could probably design a dual GPU card with alot of VRAM if they don't really have length limits =/
And this is suppose to replace the... 5870? the 5870 isn't as long AND it has more stream processors 1600 I think, what are they doing?
And this is suppose to replace the... 5870? the 5870 isn't as long AND it has more stream processors 1600 I think, what are they doing?
dividebyzero
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@ zogo
@Johny47
If you bothered to scale out the card using known measurements -i.e. distance between backplate and PCIe connector, or the length of the connector, you will see that the card is approximately the same length as the outgoing HD 5870 (10.5 - 11 inches)
The HD 6970 is likely to be either 1920 stream processors (big die, handy performance advantage over the GTX 580) or 1536 (roughly equal with the GTX 580 in performance). If it is the former figure then it would stand to reason that the 1536 shader version would be the HD 6950 (Cayman Pro).
@Johny47
If you bothered to scale out the card using known measurements -i.e. distance between backplate and PCIe connector, or the length of the connector, you will see that the card is approximately the same length as the outgoing HD 5870 (10.5 - 11 inches)
The HD 6970 is likely to be either 1920 stream processors (big die, handy performance advantage over the GTX 580) or 1536 (roughly equal with the GTX 580 in performance). If it is the former figure then it would stand to reason that the 1536 shader version would be the HD 6950 (Cayman Pro).
So I think we can safely say that AMD's 5xxx series were better than nvidia's 4xx series. But the recent 5xx series from nvidia and AMD 6xxx is really shaping up to be a slugfest. Hopefully it truly brings out the best out of the companies and make it a win-win situation for the consumer!
