The bottom end: AMD accepting Intel is good enough? (+Poll)

[3DVagabond]

68xx was VLIW4 as well, along with some mobile parts.

6800's are vliw5.

 

[Homeles]

6800's are vliw5.

Shoot, you're right. Mobile parts are VLIW5 as well.

 

[MrTeal]

68xx was VLIW4 as well, along with some mobile parts.

No, Barts uses VLIW5. AMD didn't introduce VLIW4 until Cayman.

 

[Dark Shroud]

Basically there is enough old stock & rebranding in the channel currently that AMD doesn't currently need to release sub $100 GCN. Besides people buying those cards don't care much about video quality anyway.

 

[pelov]

Cayman performed really well and they were pretty damn cheap considering the performance. I would've preferred GCN as well, but they've had far more time to tinker with VLIW4 than they have with GCN.

 

[Concillian]

Trinity quad channel? Seriously? Where did you get that information? No way a low-cost platform is going to be quad channel. Everything I've read so for points to a dual channel.

You're right, it's Vishera (desktop version). Still it's going to be available for those interested in having better GPU performance.