Quote Originally Posted by Mechanical Man View Post
How could they when market decided cards were more value than recommended price from AMD.
how do you know that? how many more people would have bought a 5870 if it were priced lower? i think there would be much more demand.
Quote Originally Posted by Sn0wm@n View Post
35% less transistors would surely help that dont you think?

and also they had a buggy tsmc node to work with ... and maybe they worked out the kinc now ....
surely less transistors and a smaller die will help yields with some assumptions but it doesnt guarantee anything for the product. there is a lot we dont know. because they are dominating in performance and manufacturability, they can have high margins and market share growth at the same time. basically, they can do as they please with these cards. this is more of an economics problem than a technical one so it's not my area to speculate in but i dont think the cards will be value oriented.