Quote Originally Posted by antiacid View Post
and THIS ladies and gents, is why AMD did not advertise their 6870/6850 so much. John Doe sees the product ID go up, but performance going down. John Doe is puzzled. John Doe doesn't know that those new cards are meant to replace the 5770 and 5850, not the 5870/5970. John Doe thinks "AMD sucks ten thousand dicks!" until caymen XT shows up. Let's hope AMD's strategy pays off with a $/perf argument that appeals
im not john doe, i haven't really followed the 6xxx series news (5870 still works great), amd/ati's naming scheme has not changed for like ever....why would now be different? but as was pointed out to me before; i now know that these are mid-range cards and not 58xx series replacements.