The ATI Radeon 5XXX Thread

[saaya]

that would require a lot of redundant sps and other logic blocks in the gpu... which would explain the large die size... that plus dx11 i guess...
so yes, we might not see logic cut down rv870s... or the few that will be damaged beyong redundancy replacement will be cut down and sold as juniper...

sorry, but we're still living in a capitalistic society, the reason the current 4xxx series is so affordable is not because AMD/ATI is being nice/friendly; it's because they want to grab market share by offering better price/performance ratio; if their 5870 performs on par with a more expensive NVIDIA product and they price it lower they continue the trend. If their products performs better and is priced the same, they also continue the trend. I see no fault in this logic; a fault in the logic would be for them to give away their products at lower prices "just because".

who said just because?
i think they should continue to capture market share and if they price their cards that high they wont capture as much... a lot of nvidia fans will camp and wait with prices that high... what won over people from nvidia to ati in the past was better perf at better price, or worse perf at much better price... a little better perf at a little lower price wont wow anybody, especially long term nvidia users...

like ive said, who knows what the right price is especially in the industries current situation... so yes, it makes sense to start high... i just hope they drop prices soon after the launch...