I do believe there will be a 5950 but I don't see how it could be a hemlock part unless it is at 499 and the 5970 is at 549-599 as there is no room price wise on the current line up to have both a 5950/70 and keep the top model at $499. However I don't see AMD setting an MSRP higher than $499 USD for their top part in the current market. Sure they *could* do it as there is no competition but as far as would they is another story all together.

Yes I know we have the marketing slide showing hemlock as high end at < $499 but it still leaves us with the question of "What in the hell is the 5950?"

Now to me this would be feasible but I still don't see it happening so this is strictly for kicks. I believe it could be possible to have a 2880SP 5950 card at slightly lower clocks than the 3200SP 5970. Again though my mentioned pricing information would have to apply to fit it in. The line up (on a scale of price / performance ) would clearly be 5750 -> 5770 -> 5850 -> 5870 -> 5870 eyefinity ( assumed to be 2GB to accommodate the high resolutions ) -> 5950 -> 5970 ( I don't expect either to be 2x2048vram but 2x1024 just like the previous 4870x2 )

Now unless that duo orb type cooler was strictly an ES for 5970 ( which I don't know if that was the ES cooler you are meaning? ) there should still be the possibility of a 5950. However I don't agree that we need one. If AIBs want to do one, all the power to them but personally I don't see it happening again for market placement / price issues.