Originally posted by: Gstanfor
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Originally Posted by CJ
It seems that today some more info has surfaced.
R600 will be launched at Cebit. The press will get to see the R600 at the end of February. One week after the Cebit the R600 will be available for everyone to buy. Claims are that the R600 is 5 to 10% faster in DX10 applications than the G80. Note the DX10 claim and no mention of DX9 performance compared to G80.
CJ has a pretty good track record where rumors are concerned. AMD/ATi had better be hiding a big DX9 performance suprise given the rumored specs, size, cooling and process requirements of R600.
5 - 10 extra performance simply isn't enough to convince most people (performance crazed fanboys excepted) to buy, you generally need *at least* a 20% differential. Contrary to what some in this forum believe absolute performance simply isn't important to most people - otherwise ATi demonstrably would not find themselves in the situation they have occupied since NV40 launched (yes,
the competing Ati product all the way up to G80 may have been a tad faster, but that didn't stop nvidia from absolutely steamrollering ATi sales, marketshare and profit wise).
I'm reminded of a certain other defunct 3D accelerator maker who loved to focus upon performance above all else as did its fanbase (who now largely support Ati). They found themselves in similar circumstances and failed to get out...