Quote Originally Posted by Sam_oslo View Post
I hear you, but you are defending AMD for starting this mess with fake new generation. You are saying it's OK to fool and disappoint people who think they are getting a new generation.
By your logic, GTX 460 should be a new generation too. Why couldn't AMD call it 5875?

AMD has started a messy number game, with a lot of confusions, broken expectations, and fooling people, and you are defending it.
because all 5800s are xfire compatible, its not part of the series and that rule has been standard for quite some time now. and its a good rule since it makes things very simple for consumers.

reasons why your misinterpretation of my logic is wrong:

1) 460 is below the 470/480, thus does not need to have a new series, there is a gap where the 460 fits in price and perf
2) the 470/480 are still be produced, while the 260 is not, so the 460 would not have made sense as a "570" since 470s will continue to be on the shelf after the release of the.

in a few months there will be no fools. people should not see a 5870 next to a 6870 on the shelf. and people who can afford to buy a 300$ video card each year deserves to screw up by not reading a single thing or asking a friend. one reason i think they didnt go with 6770 was because the 5770 will still be sold for a little while longer, and didnt want people wondering why the same thing from 2 different generations are out there, but with way different prices.

i could write pages about different concepts for reasoning of their naming history, and pages more on ideas about where things are headed based only on process sizes and release dates. but its mostly pointless considering very little is even used as logical reasons why, and the rest is pure speculation.