If this isn't the high end counterpart,i am gonna be shocked,gtx580 has a third of the cuda cores,perhaps a card that will destroy the 7970 when it comes down to stuff like aa,msaa?
It's tdp is a interesting factor it is considerably lower then the gtx580,but higher then the gtx560 ti.
While no bandwidth specs have been posted i have seen rumors of basically the same bandwidth as the gtx580,but i guess nvidia may very well milk the most performance out of this efficient design making it look like a gtx480 when sized up.
Can't wait to see what this thing can do.:biggrin: