Quote Originally Posted by zalbard View Post
Why would they EOL their high-end cards in favour of mid-range ones? That just doesn't make sense. 2GB gives decent gains in many scenarios.
You nailed right on the problem, yep 6970 is AMD's high-end card, but tell me, why is this card fighting in mainstream now?

The way I look at it, AMD has chosen to "degrade" it to 1GB to make it cheaper to fight in mainstream.

Yeah, 2GB gives decent gains in many scenarios, but based on current info/rumors, it will probably be too expensive to justify those "gains", soon. Both compared to AMD's own 1GB-prices and nVidia upcoming 560, or good price-cut on 570, or maybe other new GPU too.


If nVidia goes for a aggressive move in mainstream, which I believe they both can do and will do, then AMD has to sell the 1GB really cheap to compete. That will be the end of life for 2GB. The price-gap will get too big to justify those "gains", unless AMD drops the price on 2GB too, that will again affect 1GB-prices, in circle.

The way I look at it, AMD has already killed 2GB, practically, but all this will depend on how aggressive nVidia will get in this round.