New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

[Calmatory]

so if the 6k series prices a bit lower than the 5k series (as you have just said), it's a bad thing?

Exactly. When Barts XT is supposed to be 6870 and replace 5850 and be a bit lower in price, it really is a bad thing. It confuses the out from the market.

Why can't they do it something like this (naming relative to the performance, NOT the old chip with a renaming):

HD 5770 -> HD 6650
HD 5830 -> HD 6750
HD 5870 -> HD 6770
HD 5970 -> HD 6870

Now they almost do this, but they buff the naming scheme with x1xx, resulting 6770 -> 6870 @ supposedly 6770 price.

If this all is true, it seems that they instead of bringing in actual performance, they just upp the names by 100 and keep the price giving an impression of bigger leap from old generation than it actually is. Then again, it is understandable that they're working at the limits of 40 nm and there isn't too much to improve until 28 nm.

Then again, there is no reason to obfuscate the naming convention, but according to the rumours they are doing so. Also, there is no need fo sell the parts for lower price because Nvidia can't compete even with 5xxx, let alone 6xxx. ...and AMD already sells everything TSMC can produce for them.