New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

[Sn0wm@n]

There is so much room for naming. They have room in the 64xx or 63xx. 62xx etc, they don't need to shift anything. Zacate performance being such a lower power part would justify a naming convention probably in the 63xx or 62xx or 61xx range anyways.

In addition, I thought fusion GPU was based on 5xxx, technology and this was confirmed somewhere.

Can you answer this question, which nobody seems to have answered. What looks more attractive to the general public. A 6770 at $249 or a 6870 at $249.

To me this is why they are reshifting the naming scheme, the answer to the above question is obvious to me.

Not being able to use 63xx or 62xx seems like such an esoteric answer, that I don't know why you think fusion introduction needs a new naming scheme since there is so much room for products with AMD current naming setup.

the 6400 would have the same power as Llano if the Llano specs are correct .. so forget the 6400 series ... so that leaves us with 6700 6800 6900 ...

the specs of the fusion parts will take that space left in the radeon naming left over .. wich is the 6400 and and the lower end laptop fusion parts etc... the rest is all radeon .. it does make sense if we look at it this way .. for a future way of thinking that 2 years down the line bulldozer will probably be close to having a gpu into the cpu ... so that would fit quite well with the new naming scheme etc... much more to learn once the nda is over ... so i wouldnt put all my hate towards amd before the nda is even over ....

That's been answered 100x already and that's why so many of us are upset...
ATI will fool the general public into thinking that they are getting more for their money when they really are not.

if the renaming scheme is how i pointed it out its not fooling people up .. its getting the proper parts for the proper markets ... no more need for cheapo 5450 type of gpu ... because now amd will have a gpu inside a cpu very soon .. so no more need for that .. that 5550 is out of there also ... 5570 also ... leaving the essentials ... 6700 6800 ... 6900 ... so since most people think higher numbers are good .. they inflated the line by one notch .. it does sound bad ... but we dont have the whole deal .. the pricing etc.... if the pricing is done nicely i think it might be brilliant ...