AMD Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 confirmed to be launched on 22.10.2010

[tajoh111]

But the 6870 will be what? $50-$75 cheaper than the 5870?

So ATI just saved dumbass Joe that much money.

But the bigger point being you can't mother everyone like the government
and blame everyone but yourself if you are not smart enough to google a review.

If Average Joe is not smart enough to google reviews are you going to baby sit him when he
goes out and gets that new washer and dryer at Sears and the sales person talks him into the worst model?

Sorry but no amount of labeling is going to stop stupid people from doing stupid things.

Warning this coffee is HOT!


edit:

On the serious side. I really do see your point about higher numbers, but come on at leased wait for the
full lineup to be released before complaining about it.

Sure until the 5870's are off the shelves this is going to cause some problems but oh well.


edit 2:

On this comment "Joe's will buy it, see the 6870, see another product with a 5850 or 5870 and immediately think "mine is faster"."

How will he ever know it's not faster? He would have to read a review, oh wait he doesn't read reviews. See that is why I don't think
you are making much of a point with those comments.

The problem is not when when they bring 5870 level performance down to 259 dollars, it when they bring 5850 level performance again at 259 dollars. I have a hard time believing that a 960 shader card will compete with a 1600 shader card that is 50% bigger at similar clocks. In addition the leak vantage number seem very believable with a 960 shader part.

barts is a new gpu is it not, how can you rename something b4 it's named the first time

I guess it is not that much renaming, as much as it is deceptive naming. Both NV renaming and AMD name shifting are doing the same thing, that is to make the consumer to believe they are getting something faster than they really are. The difference is, AMD part is cheaper to produce(compared to the 5850) and it sounds like they are charging the same price of admission.