the 8000 series have had a supposed specs leak and videocardz is on station for when it happened. according to the picture the 8990 will be the one to watch with a transistor count that is exponentially high over a 7990 and could very well be the largest single use of transistors in the HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

as for the venus xt and venus pro 8900 series single cards the specs have generally improved vs a 7970 (on paper) about 25 - 50%. the 8870 on down is essentially the cards getting bumped down a numerical and price notch omitting the 8700 series which is actually alot more like a 6950 and 6930 with new stickers including the bump up to 192-bit from 128-bit memory interfaces which is a LONG time coming.

all of this assuming however that you believe the leak.

im atm digging for a confirmation on this being legit. ill let you know if it rings true.

http://vga.zol.com.cn/339/3393120.html

[QUOTE="acanofcoke"][QUOTE="JohnF111"]This'll surely bring nvidia to their knees and slap them around LOL like the disgusting savage inbreds they are and show everything that AMD is superior in every way to the competition. Isn't that what you're thinking ionusX? We all know it is.[/QUOTE] Lulz... It's not like Nvidia would bring out anything of their own to compete is it!?![/QUOTE] actually kepler 2.0 is set for the end of 2013 atm as nvidia's only info so far is their flagships supposed specs and a release window of "2013" which means jsut about anything at this point.

nvidia has gotten caught with their pants down, effectively. their roadmap for the longest time assumed the other guys (amd) gpu lineup would pale in comparison to kepler 1.0 as maxwell would be 2 years off now they need to re-imagine kepler and have had little time to work with it. as a result kepler will probably be a pretty bad jerry rigged job.

now before u start b!tching lemme get this clear this will be a rush job. rush job =/= bad or worse than amd in fact a whole expect an interesting fight HOWEVER i expect no dual gpu from them this time around. this is because as of yet nvidia has only talked its single core flagships k20 and k20X. so atm id say dont count on a dual gpu to compete with the 8990 which if you think about it means that nvidia has given up hope on competing in yet another market segment. which is not a good omen. does it mean maxwell wont have a dual gpu, no but its unlikely. and by unlikely i mean the same odds that jake456 will come in here and troll

if you asked me id say its the innovators dilema at work here. nvidia rather than compete with AMD directly they hava simply focused on a higher end market segment. and as a result will soon be pushed into making expensive and impractical products. it happened the GM when asian car companies moved in to the US market. and it happened when amd walked into the cpu scene until the core 2 duo lineup when intel got wise.