Quote Originally Posted by Loque View Post
doesn't deserve the name 6870.. more like 5890.
That would imply it's meant to replace the 5870

People need to look at the pricing/chart. There was no card to fill the gap between 5770 and 5850. So they split Cypress performance into two new GPUs... Cayman for the > $250 range, and Barts for $150-250. Juniper is now < $150 and will not be renamed

Sounds like a good market plan, and 6800 was kind of necessary as a name since a 6700 would kill the 5700 sales, unless they wanted to rebrand the 5700