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Limp Gawd
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At this point no layman would even remember the 9800Pro, and thats the difference
And as for this, well thats exactly what they're doing, just putting the generation number in front, so how is what you want any better? They've actually been fairly logical in their progression: 7x00, 8x00, 9x00, Xx00 (X being 10 in roman numerals, so its basically 10x00..), X1x00, then dropping the lead X and carrying on from there.
Naming schemes kinda suck don't they? The leaked slide is waay more likely to be the right designation anyway
Yeah, they do suck. I could only imagine having limited computer knowledge and trying to pick out a CPU and GPU these days.
Guess I'll be hanging onto my trusty 5870 for a little while longer if this is the case. I was hoping the 6870 would offer some 30% performance increase, but with the new naming scheme it looks like it will actually be a slower card than what I have now.
Can't wait for some actual reviews to shed light on the matter. May just sit out the whole 6xxx generation altogether.
Specs included!
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/16943...870_are_go_to_launch_on_october_18/index.html
Looks good, can't wait to see what they can do with a non-stripped down SP model.
Pulling the same performance from 960 SP's as the current 1400 SP's use... impressive. But, what could a 1400, 1600, 2000SP+ model do???
Didn't AMD already say that the 68xx series was going to be the value line like the 57xx was?
And the equivalent of the 5970 would be the 6990?
I could have sworn I read this weeks ago.
Didn't AMD already say that the 68xx series was going to be the value line like the 57xx was?
And the equivalent of the 5970 would be the 6990?
I could have sworn I read this weeks ago.
I will stick to Mario Kart on the wii until this is cleared up!
http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/19606
The 6870 is a rebadged 6770. This is why it performs like a 5850.
The 6970 will be what the 6870 should have been.
I think AMD wanted to have a 6870 available for the holiday sales season and this was their way of doing that. The 6970 may not be here until the end of the year or early next year.
Since the 6770 doesn't exist yet. Nothing can be a re-branded version of it.
Again just more rumor, it also says the 6770 will just be a re-branded 5770. Which would be shooting themselves in the foot big time. The 5770 isn't even the same architecture of the real 6xxx cards.
They actually really have a new architecture. Why wouldn't they call Barts 67xx and Cayman 68xx and maintain sanity and clarity. Why invite derision by not only breaking the naming scheme, but also by a misleading re-brand of the older architecture with the new generation name.
Not saying that it won't happen, but again, I am hoping AMD isn't developing a case of world class stupid.
This is old and already debunked. The Press presentation PDF is on the hands of a few people who have been leaking pieces of it here and there if you know where to look and how to read more than one language or click google translate.
LOL
People need to calm down - it's all part of the "close to launch craziness" that goes on.
There are no exact specs - or else AMD would list them on their site - right now, everything is a maybe, most sites are using each other as sources.
I also think, people don't want to believe AMD were able to get this much performance out of their ageing architecture - where NVIDIA debut double the transistors and get a scrape more performance out of it while bringing the heat from hell to the card.
Only a matter of weeks before we see who was "right" and who was "wrong".
Looks like according to that article the 6870 will have 5850 level performance and will be competing against the GTX 460. so the 6850 then should have around 5830 level performance and replace the 5770. An incremental performance improvment for the midend to leapfrog Nvida.
6870 > GTX 460 ~ 199
6850 > GTS 450 ~ 129
It is going to be weird seeing a 6970 card that isn't dual gpu, but whatever. The names are all about marketing.
This is old and already debunked. The Press presentation PDF is on the hands of a few people who have been leaking pieces of it here and there if you know where to look and how to read more than one language or click google translate.
Looks like according to that article the 6870 will have 5850 level performance and will be competing against the GTX 460. so the 6850 then should have around 5830 level performance and replace the 5770. An incremental performance improvment for the midend to leapfrog Nvida.
6870 > GTX 460 ~ 199
6850 > GTS 450 ~ 129
It is going to be weird seeing a 6970 card that isn't dual gpu, but whatever. The names are all about marketing.
http://www.nordichardware.se/testla...hd-6870-och-6850-lanseras-den-18-oktober.html
Claims the 6850 will be worse than a 5830. Either the rebadge article is correct or there is some really screwy information floating around out there.
I'm hoping that passive board that chiphell showed is not fake as that's what I'm most interested in.
I'm going to quote myself here.
That slide is awful. It looks like a 3 year old photochopped it.
http://fudzilla.com/graphics/item/20358-barts-xt-and-pro-to-replace-5800-series
For all you ppl saying 68xx will no doubt be performing better than 58xx, we now have a funny conclusion from FUD, while maintaing consistency with the +100 bump in naming scheme, we have Barts giving us crazy performance (XT > 5870 and Pro > 5850). We wish this were true, but I'd be happy if XT were around 5850 and priced really well.
I Highly doubt the 6770 will be over 200USD that would be giving too much ground to Nvidia and also breaking the tradition of the 770 parts being under 200.
Remember the absurd prices and delays of the 5x were due to bad yields at TSMC. Not the case here.