Quote Originally Posted by Helloworld_98 View Post
OMG you guys just can't let go!

just because a load of rumours said the dual R870 card is the 5900 series doesn't make it so, like how loads of people believed the Earth was flat and it isn't so.

my guess would be the 5900's are just 1GHz+ R870's and 2 or 4GB of 5 to 6 GHz memory and the six outputs, maybe with some awesome drivers to go with.
The pricing of the 5900 hundred series doesn't make sense and never will if they are single gpu. Basically hemlock is supposed to be priced at 500 or more. The 5870 eyefinity edition is supposed to be priced at $449 where does that place the 5900 series to be priced if they are single chip GPUs? Heck even the 5870 eyefinity pricing doesn't make sense when it is priced so closely to hemlock.

Additionally if the 5900 was just a higher clocked rv870, it would be somewhat guilty of the renaming tactic that NV does because its just an overclocked rv870 and thus does not deserve an entirely new name. 5890 is a fine name if AMD wants to release a higher clocked rv870. But even that would be somewhat unneeded as I can imagine with some more mature cores and a good cooler, I can imagine overclocked editions of the rv870 reaching 1000mhz.