Quote Originally Posted by tbone8ty View Post
frankly i dont care about the naming of the card, i care about price and performance....and i get why there doing it, their just moving it up a number basically so they can charge more for the whole series.

people need to stop complaining about the naming, its all Ive heard in these threads. waaaaah

the 6870 looks sexy and for $250 its an awesome deal with the improved efficiency and smaller die. just wait for cayman XT its gonna be a sweet card which will be much deserved of the 9 series naming.
Maybe you just dont understand that the 6870's performance may be slightly less than a 5870. (The original 6770, which is not 6870 was considerably slower than the 5870)... Unless they overclock like there's no tomorrow, the naming scheme is TOTALLY wrong.

As far as I'm concerned, it's not correct. It's misleading, same with 6700. People will be confused and buy 6700 thinking it's something special over 5700 or competing nvidia cards. (Just like nvidias former renaming)

That said, I'm waiting for Cayman XT since my 5770's both do 1040/1445 each and are fast enough to hold me over till then.