Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
If people don't care about naming, why did people go crazy over the Nvidia naming fiasco? The pricing of the cards lowered with each renaming and it was priced to what it was competing against. The same rules should apply to that product too regardless of the change in architecture.
renaming the same part as an upgrade was the problem with NV, and the mobile specifically with telling the people that the 285 mobile as a new part over the 9800m and they made it sound that it was related to the g200 and not just a g92.

this is not know if its better or not, no1 has a bench for games and its supposed to be a new arch on the sahders. i have no doubts that this will be in the same range, but unless they are moving to using the x2 instead of the x9xx then its stupid, but if they are moving the x9xx to be a single strong part then having the x2 name back then i dont see a problem if its faster than a non overclocked 58xx.

Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
the 3870 was slower than a 2900xt last time i checked. but i guess thats ok cause it had better prices and power consumption, and cause it went from x9xx to x8xx

so what if they called these the 6860 and 6840? would people stop crying?
the 3870 stock clocks were alot faster than the 2900xt for gaming and especially with AA, the problem was that the 3870 did not clock the 2900, but if u then look at a 4890 it comes right on a 5850 if u oc the 4890 but not the 5850.