Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
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.


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.
If you didn't know what GPU was going into the performance segment then your only complaint would be that the 6870 is good enough over the 5870 to justify whatever price segment it's set at, which is valid and OK. This however, is not the same as renaming GPUs from generaiton to generation.