New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

[DiGiTaL_MoNkEY]

Enjoy...

[blindbox]

Why will you upgrade from 5870 to 6870 ? Offcourse it will be a downgrade ......if you want upgrade from the 5870, you will choose the 6950-6970 or even the 6990 .... It was same for 4870-4890 owners... outside DX11 they was no interest to buy a 5770 for replace the 4870 ...

SERIOUSLY!

4870-->5870 is an upgrade!

Now,
5870-->6870 is not!?

Oh man, oh man, oh man, you gotta work out the conflicting ideas in your mind.
Did you seriously simply chose to ignore 4870-->5870 and took 4870-->5770 instead?


I'm speaking out of pure logic here. If Barts is the 6770 series, it's all fine, as 5770 --> 6770 is a perf improvement. Just like it has always been! (well, except for the very low ends)

I thought I'm an ATi fanboy until I saw this thread. Clearly I'm not a fanboy enough.

EDIT: Still no official slides regarding naming.

[Sn0wm@n]

nice slides .. but ati radeon ??? ... isnt it suposed to be amd radeon ...

[SimBy]

nice slides .. but ati radeon ??? ... isnt it suposed to be amd radeon ...

Slides are from august. Not sure when they dropped ATI brand but I think it was a little later.

[andos]

hay guize, one connector dere

[demonkevy666]

SERIOUSLY!

4870-->5870 is an upgrade!

Now,
5870-->6870 is not!?

Oh man, oh man, oh man, you gotta work out the conflicting ideas in your mind.
Did you seriously simply chose to ignore 4870-->5870 and took 4870-->5770 instead?


I'm speaking out of pure logic here. If Barts is the 6770 series, it's all fine, as 5770 --> 6770 is a perf improvement. Just like it has always been! (well, except for the very low ends)

I thought I'm an ATi fanboy until I saw this thread. Clearly I'm not a fanboy enough.

EDIT: Still no official slides regarding naming.

It only has 1 crossfire connection ?

meaning it's limited to two cards

while the 5870 can still do up to 4 cards.

it seems a bit odd...

[blindbox]

Which means it's official. Barts is 6870. It's not like I'd get tricked by the new naming scheme, but I wish they stuck with the old one. No hope of seeing Antilles Pro or something like that I guess.

[Sn0wm@n]

the gpu pic looks a bit fake

[TheBlueChanell]

SERIOUSLY!

4870-->5870 is an upgrade!

Now,
5870-->6870 is not!?

Oh man, oh man, oh man, you gotta work out the conflicting ideas in your mind.
Did you seriously simply chose to ignore 4870-->5870 and took 4870-->5770 instead?


I'm speaking out of pure logic here. If Barts is the 6770 series, it's all fine, as 5770 --> 6770 is a perf improvement. Just like it has always been! (well, except for the very low ends)

I thought I'm an ATi fanboy until I saw this thread. Clearly I'm not a fanboy enough.

EDIT: Still no official slides regarding naming.

Look at price brackets not name's. 4870 to 5870 was an improvement but the price was about $150 more per card than last generation. The 6870 should be ~$250 which puts it back in line with 38**/48** pricing. The Evergreen line was so strong that they were able to sell 5870's for $400-500.

[The Water Dog]

Blindbox: 6970\6950 is the new high-end and 6990 the new dual-chip card.

[Oztopher]

I don't mind what AMD is doing with the naming, i mean, it's quite logical anyway.

But i really think they should keep the 'X2' name, so 6970X2 would be the dual GPU 6970... obviously. Just makes more sense in my eyes. Although i can understand how 'some' people might get confused about the same name, just with an X2 on the end.

If the dual GPU card is going to be called 6990, it doesn't make sense to me. As 6970 to a 6990 doesn't seem like a very big jump (in terms of names) considering it will be nearly double the performance.

I also think some flamers on here should be a bit more adaptable to change

[PaganII]

Ya, it's no more confusing than changing ATI to AMD. Change them both at the same time is better.