One of the disappointing things about today’s launch of the AMD Radeon 6970 is that it is not as fast, or faster than, the NVIDIA GTX 580. Remember that AMD was the first to launch a DirectX 11 GPU last year, the Radeon 5870. Meanwhile NVIDIA took another six months to bring out anything that was close in speed to the 5870. AMD had a huge lead, which they have now lost. Perhaps they lost the lead because TSMC canceled the 32 nm manufacturing process, which the Radeon 6970 was supposed to use.
Fortunately, all is not lost. AMD is slated to launch Antilles in the first quarter of 2011. What is Antilles? It is simply the AMD Radeon 6990. Rumor has it that this graphics card will have two Cayman chips on board. Essentially this will be CrossFire on a single graphics card. One thing to note, there are purported leaked slides showing the specifications for the Radeon 6990. These slides are known to be faked, so do not fall for them.
May I know the price of AMD Radeon 6970 and GTX 580? And who is better in price/performance ratio? To us consumers, price is the most important thing, then performance. You should put that in your NEXT REVIEW!!!