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[Final8ty]

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.

You have no logic to your posts because your ignoring too many factors about the present & the past & the good reasons why it wont happen by reply's to you.

1800xt 256MB-512MB was little reason for the 512MB version but for the few who had 2560x1600 displays but yet it was still made it & 1900xt again 256MB-512MB.

4xxx series 512MB-1GB & 2GB.

5xxx series 1GB-2GB

6xxx series 1GB-2GB.


All of these cards in that are present & what were in the past are fighting the same battles as always & the mainstream battle has always been there & the high ends have always been there in spite of the main focus of the mainstream.

Your forgetting that its not all about having one GPU for each segment & its a combination of features that set them apart & not just what GPU is on it & that fact that the incremental flexibility to join multiple parts together to give higher end performance when the pocket allows that would go out the window if limited to only 1GB parts.

If NV & AMD end 2GB then that's end to 2560x1600 & multi monitor Eyefinity & NV surround gaming just when they brought such features in, because that's what your saying.

The2GB is the enthusiasts part & the 1GB is the mainstream part & is no different from the 512MB enthusiasts part & the 256MB mainstream part of gfx cards in the past.

There are some enthusiasts choosing ATI over NV purely because NV has less Vram on there cards & are worried about hitting that Vram wall.