As far as I understand, this advantage of AMD was only -or mostly - present on its 5xxx and 6xxx series of GPUs. The new 7xxx (and 8xxx) ditches VLIW: http://ww

As far as I understand, this advantage of AMD was only -or mostly - present on its 5xxx and 6xxx series of GPUs. The new 7xxx (and 8xxx) ditches VLIW: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-core-next-preview-amd-architects-for-compute/3 http://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-core-next-p...