New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

[Lanek]

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.

Why will you upgrade from 5870 to 6870 ? Offcourse it will be a downgrade ......if you want upgrade from the 5870, you will choose the 6950-6970 or even the 6990 .... It was same for 4870-4890 owners... outside DX11 they was no interest to buy a 5770 for replace the 4870 ... in general the new lower cards ( who is the 6850-6870 ) are rarely faster of the Top cards of the old series, but in general equal them..

Now upgrading from 4890 or 5770 for 6870 = will be a good choice. specially if the price is cheap. Having a gpu who perform between a 5850 and a 5870 for a price who should be around the 5770 prices is not a bad move.