"the HD 8970 will be based on the Curacao XT core, which will carry 2304 stream processors, 144 TMUs, 48 ROPs, a core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 6 GB of GDDR5 memory running over a 384-bit memory interface at an effective speed of 7.0 GHz."
AMD's website has had the information up about the 8970 for some time now. (http://www.amd.com/us/Documents/AMD_Radeon_HD_8970_Feature_Summary.pdf)
The PDF on AMD's website detailing this GPU is the following:
2048 Stream Processors - 256 less than this article states
128 TMU's - 16 less than this article states
32 ROPs - 16 less than this article states
clock speed of 1000 MHz (1050 MHz Boost) - 50-100 MHz less than what this article states
3GB GDDR5 Memory - 3GB less than what this article states
I am all for having a GPU with the specs listed in this article, but AMD's website with the official specs are what I'm going by. At least this article isn't getting my hopes up about the imagined Radeon 9970 with 4096 stream processors. That was a big ass tease that turned out to be completely false. Damn, Tom, you're worse than my wife!