AMD HD6950/HD6970 1GB in a few weeks (the people's high end gpu)

[ohnoitseddy]

You are new to this forum, but when i said something similar to your line (for a while ago, before the release of 6970) I got flamed with several personal attacks.

Everybody was expecting that 6970 would beat/match 580, that was the plan. At least every AMD-fan thought and believed. But it turned out to beat the 480 after release.

But lets hope the "new" 6990 plan works.

I find this remark rather strange... So, what people were expecting determines what AMD's plan is? That's ridiculous of course - why should there be any relationship between the two?

It wasn't everyone that expected that. Anyone could have noticed that for the previous two generations it hasn't been AMD's intention to match nVidia's high end, at least, not with a single GPU. It's called "small die strategy", and it worked out pretty well. Why would they change it?

Besides, what we have now is a HD6970 that is at roughly the GTX570's level for roughly the same price. Seems absolutely fine to me! "It's all about the single GPU crown" really is the old way of thinking, one AMD put away about two years ago, when they introduced the HD4870...

I think the 1 Gb HD6950 is most important to AMD, since it should neatly fill the gap between the 2 Gb version and the HD6870. AMD must have learned about gaps when nVidia came with their GTX460... I guess they're trying to prevent again ending up in such a situation.