New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

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They do when it suits them.

NV just has to change the PCI-E plug on a gfx card from 6pin to 8pin for them to see it as a new product & its ok for a new name.

ATi change some core elements in the GPU & they say its the same product.

So you're not pissed at all that 6870 has about the same performance as 5870, as long as the generation increase is not due to a shrink?
For me, a generation increase means a performance increase, that's about it. Maybe power consumption reduction is acceptable as well. If power consumption is half of Cypress, I don't really mind if 6870 has the same perf as 5870. I did say a power reduction would warrant a generation increase but as far as I am concerned, I wouldn't upgrade from 5870 to 6870 just for less power.

I'm pretty disappointed actually. I have more ATi cards than nvidia. Hell, I prefer ATi before nvidia, if performance is comparable (GTX 460 is *just* everyone's cards these days though). The good thing is, none of the renaming etc matters to me, nor anyone here when it comes to buying it themselves. I do have to keep watch when I buy notebooks though, they're renamed infinite number of times (nvidia being a worse offender), and I tried a laptop with 8 CUDA cores.. ugh. Then a 32 cuda core one (hell, branded as 9600MGT)...good, but 4330 is better. meh, I should've stucked with ATi.

I'm just hoping for rumours to be rumours. Anyway, sticking to my trusty 4890.

Or maybe I'm just about to get used to seeing ATi's performance leaps they keep showing.