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Originally Posted by motasim
... I am not red nor green; I just speak my mind; and what I think is that AMD has been surprised by the unexpected launch and performance of the GTX 580, as everyone else have ... we were only expecting a dual GF104 Chip or a fully-enabled GF104 GPU from nVidia and no one was expecting a "proper" GF100 (i.e. GF 110) chip GPU, but nVidia managed to keep a good secret long enough to surprise competition. Now, the ball is in AMD's court; AMD has had a year now since they launched the 5870 & 5970 and has no excuse in my opinion not to build single-chip GPUs that can outperform the GTX 580, but if they couldn't, that'll definitely mean that 2011 is going to be nVidia's year, especially that the GTX 560 & GTX 570 should be on the way ...
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those 500 series estimates look well possible from their currant lineup, at least specs and speed wise.
GTX570 will be GF110 with near GTX480 performance, should be considerably less power consumption too.
GTX560 is the fully enabled and clocked up GF104 we've been waiting for.
GTS550 is also a fully enabled GF106, and clocked up, giving it considerably more performance IMO, given at the moment it lacks 50% of its ROPS and memory bandwidth.