Quote Originally Posted by DilTech View Post
Read that again, he said on par with the 58xx series, NOT 5xx series... He's comparing the launches between the 69xx and the 58xx from AMD, not performance.
True, but the 58** series launch can hardly be compared, since the HD 58** series did not have any competition for about half year and even longer with the mainstream card. Actually even the AMD flagship card is still the fastest Graphic Card on the market now.

I think he was maimly promoting good supply for launch day and competitive prices.

Good supply is good news since some people in this thread were predicting paper launch.

I think if the HD 6970 acording to rumors with about 20-25% smaller die can perform anywhere close to GTX 580 than the HD 6970 is very competitive.

The rumored 190 TDP on HD 6970 should also be AMD advantage when designing the HD 6990, I hope to buy one in january.