Quote Originally Posted by tajoh111 View Post
It might occur naturally and without any interaction with the cayman and gf110, I thought quantities were going to be bad because of what the CEO of AMD said. But we are already seeing sales for the 68xx cards and to me this means either quantities of the 68xx are good or the sales of this generation are not so hot. I think its a combination of both because we never saw sales below MSRP of both cards until many many months after with the 5xxx generation. In canada, you can find a 6850 for 169 dollars which is really surprising because at that price, it is a pretty good deal. The size of cayman(an estimate from the PCB shot) indicates to me that they are going to be in entirely different price arena's so they wouldn't interfere anyways.
"The size of cayman" may tempt AMD to sell it expensive, but the "size" is not going to be the final chapter. The competition would decide the pricing. That's why you find those 68xx on sale now, because nVidia has been pushing by a good price-drop.

Next round will have better pricing in both camps, because nVidia has proven to be serious to fight by all means, both by price-drops and countering AMD's new GPU right at release. This will push down the pricing in bot camps, no matter how "big" chip they got or what's the costs of manufacture it, in my opening.