Friday 2010-12-03 Dev. update and Discussion

[klem]

Originally Posted by Hecke

Oleg,

I just read that soon coming Ati 6970 will have 2 GB VRAM.
The Nvidia GTX 580 has 1,5 GB but is a little bit faster.
What will be better for BoB? More VRAM or higher GPU Clock?

Hecke, a good question.

I know this isn't the place for it (there are at least two other threads running on GPUs and System specs) but you might like to see this....

http://videocardz.com/27861/latest-r...nd-6970-rumors
6950 competes with GTX 570/480 and is priced similar.
6970 competes with GTX 580 and is priced similar.

and
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18216134
Gibbo: "They are here though. "
and:
"I can't speak for our competitors but we won't be running out and we shall be aiming to be the most competively price on the 6900 cards. "

Looks like AMD may well keep to their revised release date of 25th December.

Of course we won't know the truth until next Wednesday, 15th. From the leaked and general hype I'm expecting the general performance order of play to be :-
6990 dual
580GTX dual
5990 dual
6970 single
480GTX / 6950 (not sure which) singles
5870 single

<switching to the GPU thread>