Just imagine the amount of 58xx's that will be flooding the used market once 7series comes out with more SP's and better TDP.
I can already see my for sale thread with twelve 58xx's
I doubt that will happen, just look at the 6xxx series, much more expensive than the 5xxx series, in terms of MH/$I can already see my for sale thread with twelve 58xx's
The reason the 6series are no better than the 5series is due to foundries being stuck on 40nm. This is why you don't see an increase in SP's in the 6 series over 5series because of limited die space due to being on the same node. Integer performance derived from the number of SP's is key for mining.
ATI/AMD focused on improving where they could with the 6series by restructuring the SP layout to gain improvements in area's the 5series lacked FP/DX11 performance while leaving its integer(SP) performance the same roughly.
Once the new node is available for production at 28nm we will see 1920+ SP's on a single die while using the 6series improved SP layout within the same TDP. New nodes bring improved performance and power efficiency.
I'm excited. Have you heard any news about AMD's progress with this?
TSMC just tapped out 28nm. It's rumored we may see mobile 7series first in 4Q this year with desktop following behind in 1Q '11.
2Q is the latest date expected so still quiet some time. 6series was to use 28nm but TSMC didnt get production out in time, had they would be looking at ~1920 SP's units now.
I wont be surprised to see 2304 SP's on the top single GPU 7series using todays 6series SP layout.
