Quote Originally Posted by DilTech View Post
Exactly what I was thinking as well...

I'm looking at it like this; either it'll beat the GTX580 and cost the same or more($499 price bracket), it'll lose to the GTX580 but be faster than the 570 and hit the $399 bracket, or it'll lose to the GTX570 and hit the $349 bracket. Considering this is AMD's biggest chip since the R600, I heavily doubt AMD could get by with it if it loses to the GTX570, but at the same time I'm not expecting it to take down the GTX580(if it could, I don't see why AMD would be aiming for the 6990 so quickly after), so I'm anticipating it to be around GTX 570 performance and between $399 and $449.

If I'm wrong, then happy day, if I'm not I won't be disappointed. This is just how things appear to me pre-release. Personally, I'm actually more interested right now in the fight between the GTX570 and the 6950 assuming they end up in the same price bracket. One of those two cards are very likely to end up in my system shortly after release.
with a similar power draw to the gtx580 i extect it to perform as well or better than the gtx580 in dx9/10 games, but i'm waiting to see how it handles tesselation and eyefinity. hd58xx cards required crossfire for playable framerates in eyefinity and i'm hoping hd68xx will change that, would make the tech much more appealing.