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

[jimbo75]

Actually I'm not basing it on that cause I haven't even taken a look at that yet.

I'll be sure to post though on October 22nd, when the super awesome 6870 comes out and doubles the performance of the 5870.

Do you have any benchmarks where the 3870 doubles the performance of the 2900xt?

The 5770 didn't double performance vs the 4770 either.

Come to think of it, how often is performance actually doubled from series to series? 3870 to 4870, 4870 to 5870 ok, 2900 to 3870, 4770 to 5770 not. Yet none of this crybaby bull occurred then.

[Baron_Davis]

Do you have any benchmarks where the 3870 doubles the performance of the 2900xt?

The 5770 didn't double performance vs the 4770 either.

Come to think of it, how often is performance actually doubled from series to series? 3870 to 4870, 4870 to 5870 ok, 2900 to 3870, 4770 to 5770 not. Yet none of this crybaby bull occurred then.

Lol you're goin back to the 2900xt to try and "prove" me wrong? Dude, doubling performance is the norm for next generation cards. If ATI didn't want ppl thinking the 6870 is a next gen card, they shoulda called it 5875.

[jimbo75]

Lol you're goin back to the 2900xt to try and "prove" me wrong? Dude, doubling performance is the norm for next generation cards. If ATI didn't want ppl thinking the 6870 is a next gen card, they shoulda called it 5875.

Did the 2000 series double performance from the 1000 series?

Did the 3000 series double performance from the 2000 series?

Yes the 4000 series doubled performance from the 3000 series, and the 5000 series too from the 4000 series.

I really don't think doubling performance is the norm. It's 50-50 for recent ATI, and Nvidia is...christ I dunno. G92 shrunk to 40nm would probably blow away Fermi so I'd have to say they've gone backwards.

[Baron_Davis]

Did the 2000 series double performance from the 1000 series?

Did the 3000 series double performance from the 2000 series?

Yes the 4000 series doubled performance from the 3000 series, and the 5000 series too from the 4000 series.

I really don't think doubling performance is the norm. It's 50-50 for recent ATI, and Nvidia is...christ I dunno. G92 shrunk to 40nm would probably blow away Fermi so I'd have to say they've gone backwards.

Norms change with the ages. I'm not gonna hunt down benchmarks for cards that are 10 years old, but I do know that the trend NOW is for next generation cards to double performance. And Fermi vs G92 is a joke. Fermi annihilates it. The architecture is way more advanced.

Anyway, zerazax is right, this arguing is pointless. I question ATI's motives when it comes to the naming of the 6850/6870, but that's my opinion. I mentioned norms changing with the ages, well, this is a new age for ATI, and I guess they wanna start something new. Going back and forth on a forum about this is going nowhere. I'll stop here.