Quote Originally Posted by Jowy Atreides View Post
I believe he wasn't speaking of the 8800 gts and 9800 gtx chips.
Rather the 8800GT, 9800GT and the GTS240, in which case, you would not be upgrading at all, in the slightest..
GTS 240 was OEM only though, so a regular person would not be able to upgrade to it at all.
Quote Originally Posted by Jowy Atreides View Post
Oh, the 8800gtx laptop chip became a 9800gt mobile chip.
That's nothing unusual though, both companies have quite different naming scheme in the notebook segment.
Quote Originally Posted by Jowy Atreides View Post
In AMD's case, you would not end up with a slower card because if the naming changes take place, the 6870 would not be the successor to the 5870.
The cayman xt 69xx would be the successor.
Yes, you would.
How should a regular person know that, after three generations, where HD 5870 was faster than HD 4870 and that was faster than 3870?