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

[tajoh111]

To put it shortly, if one were to be genuinely interested in a product soon to be released (I know Iam) I think it would be normal to be more optimistic than negative.

I am interested in the products(the higher ones anyway), I am just terrified of the pricing that will happen.

The pricing difference between the x770 series and the 5870 or I guess now cayman has been atleast double. The 4770 was like 90 dollars and the 5770 was 159 dollars. So if Bart xt is 250, I could see cayman being 500 + without scalping and considering the size rumored, this seems like a possibility. So what will antilles be priced like if their single chip parts are already 500.

I don't think very many people, atleast in the know and remember last generations scalping, are going to be optimistic. I think they are going to expect long last scalping until NV responds with something. I bet alot of you guys that are interested in this card are going to buy at the first reasonable price they can find because they don't want to pay crazy scalping prices like last generation. And that my friend is a pessimism alot of us share I can imagine considering NV competition right now.

Terrance was completely biased against AMD. I am being pessimistic for NV and AMD and will say a positive about both companies when in my eyes, they deserve it. e.g the gtx 460, which is a great card for the price and honestly quite the comeback from the dog of an architecture gf100 is. I am not being so pessimistic with Intel so much right now because beside high prices( I was incredibly pessimistic about larrabee because they lacked the experience and this turned out to be truer than I thought possible. I wasn't expecting a scrapped product), their products have have been the most consistently good but perhaps overpriced in alot of ways.

The only product I have really been optimistic about and it turned out to be a complete dud was gf100. It let me down so much considering it had so much potential and so much hype(I was thinking NV had kind of a flop before, no way would NV screw up it new next gen) and I was completely let down. After that I grew quite a bit more pessimistic on product launches.

I was probably one of the only people on this board to question, whether barts or the 6xxx in general was going to have 4d shaders(and barts has a 5d shader). Sometimes pessimism can help you see through hype and perhaps high expectations or rumors.