Quote Originally Posted by Aten-Ra View Post
Well actually 6870 is a 5830 with double the ROPs + better ILP + better Tessellator + HDMI 1.4

It is not a new architecture, it’s a Cypress refresh but AMD felt that it should name it 6000 series.

Let’s wait and see full reviews on Friday to have a better view both on performance and prices.

Quote Originally Posted by zerazax View Post
The rumors have always pointed to NI being a mix of the original NI front-end with the shader core of the previous generations. Nothing has been wrong.
AMDs David Hoff have said the following

http://www.techradar.com/news/comput...s&attr=newsall

"Hoff was also happy to speak about it's upcoming new range of DirectX 11 graphics cards. "It's certainly more than changing a sticker," he said with a grin. "I wouldn't say it's an absolute, complete from the ground up new architecture .It's a nice, different architecture."


Yes they changed the Front End and they have every right to call it 6000 if they want to but that doesn’t change the fact that 6000 is not a new architecture.