Silverforce, this is a huge falsehood. Nvidia has bigger dies due to the GPGPU driven architecture, not because it needs a bigger die to compete in gaming with AMD, which has NOT been geared toward GPGPU, which is now changing slowly for them. GCN. And what's more, I have no idea how anyone can guess at gaming performance from die size alone. Can't be done.
So you're saying Kepler will not focus on GPGPU as usual? Dream on, NV has a hard-on for that market segment.
It's a HPC product that can run games, not going to change in that aspect.
The only big variable and unknown is hotclocks and the performance of the new cores. If it was a straight Fermi shrink, you could have a better chance at guessing performance based on die size but its not. My point is purely based on the past few generations.. for NV to suddenly release a new HPC part with a small die offering much faster performance, unlikely and thus, dreaming.
ps. My original statement is fact, not falsehood. Whatever NV design their GPU for (HPC), its perf/mm2 has been subpar compared to AMD. For them to turn this around on a new node (!) with a new architecture (!)... yeah...