Quote Originally Posted by spursindonesia View Post
It might be fakes, it might not, but i tend to hope that they're real & be optimist, because that would keep the technology bandwagon moving forward & pushing the prices down one way or another. 229 US$ GTX 460 1 GB seems nice, but it would be nicer if there's a strong competitor from ATi (Bart based cards) that adds choices and perhaps knocks competitor price down a notch or two.
They are fakes or at the very least modified based on the evidence in this thread and other threads.

Keep prices down? AMD is selling whatever quantities it has of 5xxx. When the 6xxx gets released. There not going to be a lasting price drop on 5xxx products because they are going to be to or close to out of stock already.

If these scores are true, AMD will jack up the price of their card another 100 dollar up the line at the very least to reflect their performance increase. They are already selling out at their current prices. And there's nothings wrong with this, but AMD is not the saint of a company people make it out to be, nor is nvidia the devil.

But its going to be pretty scary for the consumer. 6870, 499 MSRP 600+street price. 6970 750MSRP 850+ dollar street price.

This is almost a certainty to happen in regards to pricing because these card are so underproduced and cards supply are so constrained that the consumer will pay way more than MSRP and along with the increased pricing, its going to be the most expensive generation of cards ever.

If this generation from AMD has taught us anything, supply can screw with the consumer just as much as any company.

The scary thing is if Nvidia doesn't have anything to respond with, which they won't unless they have something underwraps which is unlikely, the consumer is going to be overpaying till Nvidia get a new generation going. The worst part is a solution might not be in sight till perhaps even longer than 28nm considering how unscalable fermi seems at this point considering the size and performance for a new generation at this point. Considering Nvidia may be selling gtx 470-480 at cost, this is really bad for the consumer when a company has to sell a product below cost. It does horrible damage to a company as seen with AMD after the Core 2 duo generation.