To add to this, do you think a lot of 5870 owners (who almost certainly had a little tech skill to install the card in the first place) are going to just go out blindly and grab a 6870 that is ~$100 cheaper and think it's going to be WAY faster?

Sorry I just can't imagine this happening to any extent.


Quote Originally Posted by Calmatory View Post
A handful?

If one is that ignorant of what they buy, then they deserve it. Do you think that your average Joe buys discrete cards just randomly by looking at the packaging and the cards name only? Some may do, but they're definitely a minority. Let alone how many of those are actually HD 5000-series owners.

And some people have guts to call this a renaming.