Quote Originally Posted by ripken204 View Post
ya i also think this is just too good to be true.
even if it is a 30% increase in performance, that is still a huge increase imo.
This is a proper new generation architecture, if ATI can't be 80 to 100% faster than a 4870, then they have failed.

Quote Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD View Post
Well if that 2tflops+ is actually true then I'd say for HD 5870 that 1600 SPs (or close to it) figure makes more sense but it would cost like $399 and HD 5850 is the one targeted for $299 spot. It just doesn't feel like ATI would go for such huge jump in theoretical throughput for this series but maybe that's their "surprise".
What makes you say that?

ATI must be expecting Nvidia to bounce back after a less than stellar GT200 series, they would be fools to think they can just coast.