GTX 560 Coming soon!

[Sam_oslo]

The 1gb 6950 is only going to be $20 cheaper.
As an enthusiast what would you choose? 6950 2gb flash to 6970 or 1gb 6950 $20 less -most likely unflashable

As a complete non enthusiast unaware of the former above: 1gb vs 2gb omg only $20 more. Tempting toss up decision.

I hope there is a price war between GTX 560 and 1gb 6950.

That was a good question, what do you choose when these is so many "almost the same"-AMD-cards with different prices?.

We have 6950-2GB that can be unlocked to 6970 already, and soon you will get a 6950/70-1GB too. All these will probably perform the same for most gamers (who are using 24" monitors). The way I look at it, it's going to be really hard to sell those "expensive" 6970-2GB in this price/performance mess AMD has created.

Yep, I hope for a good price-war too, but it won't be just between GTX560 and 6950-1GB. If nVidia gets aggressive (with different flavors of GTX560, maybe a 2G too?, combined with a price-drop on GTX570, etc ..) , it will create a mess for AMD. Because all those 4 GPUs (which perform almost the same for most gamers, but have a big price-difference) will kill the "expensive" 6970-2GB, practically. Nobody would by it, unless they drop it's price too, but then it will affect the price on AMD's other 3 GPUs, in a circle.

What a mess!, AMD's GPUs have to fight each other, but the real "enemy" would be nVidia-prices, and from the look of it, that's gonn'a be a aggressive enemy, and it can get really ugly soon. Because these AMD-cards will probably perform so alike (for most gamers), that if nVidia push one of them (or tow of them, depending on 6950-1GB unlocking capability) to bottom-price, it will piratically push all of them to the bottom-price. Because otherwise those "expensive" cards (with same performance for most gamers) won't sell.
Specially if 6950-1GB can be unlocked to 6970 too, then AMD will have 4 cards with "same performance for most gamers", and have to sell all of them for the bottom-price which nVidia is going to dictate soon. But we have to wait and see nVidia's move to comprehend this mess totally.