New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

[spursindonesia]

GTX 460 1GB gets X6500, GTX 470 gets X7700, HD 5850 gets X7300 and HD 5870 gets X9000. That looks bad.

Already makin judgement without knowing the price first ? Power consumption and noise ? LOL

The resegmenting will be confusing & rather misleading, if there is any renaming then it will suck no doubt, but if HD 6870 & HD 6850 (?) are priced at US$ 229 & US$ 179 at launch and decreasing as time goes with supply abundance, i think MANY peep will praise these little mighty value cards.

Courtesy of B3D poster :

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1480677&postcount=2866

OCClub   TechGage1  "2     Xbit    PConline
       i7-920   i7-975     "      "       i7-940
        @3.00+   @3.33      "      "       @2.93
        9.9      9.10       10.3   10.7    ???
5870:  8246     8213       9041   8870    
5850:  6590     6566
5770:           4311
480:                       9237   9828
470:                              7844
6870:                                     7538
6850:                                     6549

Not bad, not bad at all IF Bart really is a 960 SP chip.

[Vardant]

Already makin judgement without knowing the price first ? Power consumption and noise ? LOL

I was talking about the naming scheme, if that wasn't obvious.

[Olivon]

[tajoh111]

I was talking about the naming scheme, if that wasn't obvious.

If the new naming scheme is true, AMD obviously renamed the lineup to justify higher pricing. A 6770 for 249 would be hard to justify to the public a 6870 at that price sounds like a good deal. Pricing is going to be jacked up substantially if AMD is going to name its 6870 to 6970.

This is deceptive marketing. Considering the price of the 5770 and the 4770, the 6870(6770) is going to be one of the worst generations ever, as their price increase was the most expensive ever, but at the same time, the least amount of improvement(the 5770 was a lot closre to the 4870, the 4770 beat the 3870).

We might not know pricing, but we all know that AMD is going to charge more than 200 dollar pricing for these cards, even the 6850. I lost confidence in AMD pricing after they charged 239 dollars for the 5830 and will lose even more faith if the naming scheme is true which seems certain at this point.