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

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Interesting, so they really went for 14 SIMD's? Weird, since 1280 would be a more round number (320x4 or 240x5). Actually, that makes it still confusing, since it can be 14 x 16 x 5 or 14 x 20 x 4.

The improved perf/mm^2 and perf/W is certainly welcome, especially on 40nm, as is the tesselation improvement

Looks like a big change was that each row of SIMD engines has its own ultra-threaded dispatch processor & caches

So the 6xxx series are supposed to be 35% cheaper. Is this going to happen?

If those prices at $179 and $239 are true... then more than 35% cheaper.

We're talking GTX470/5850 performance at $239 and > GTX 460 1GB performance at $179. Nvidia's margins are going to be in a world of hurt