Quote Originally Posted by bamtan2 View Post
jesus h christ why do people even post or think these things. why would they ever ship a new product that is worse than the old one??????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????? THEY WOULDNT, IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN
You haven't been around for long? 9800GTX? Willamette? And HD3870 was often slower than 2900 XT.

Besides, I don't think anyone says that 6xxx will be slower than 5xxx. What people is saying is that they are making some changes in the naming system, so a HD 6870 will be slower than a HD 5870, but, it's only because HD 6870 is the successor to HD 5770. The successor to HD 5870 is HD 6970, and that one will be faster.