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Soleron on 13 October 2010
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drkohler said:
Soleron said:

That said I would rather you WAITED until October 25th because AMD's midrange GPU refresh is coming out (right in your price range) and will likely provide ~30% higher performanec fo the same price. Leaked benches suggest, anyway.

No. The AMD6850 is about the same speed as the 5830, the AMD6870 is about the speed of an 5850.


I said "in the same price". Barts (6850/6870 according to rumour) should be like $200 US replacing a $260 5850. That kind of thing.

AMD just screwed up the naming. The '6870' is what should be called the 6770 and the real 6870 is Cayman which will offer performance ~30% higher than the 5870 and be called the 6970 (again rumour) and at the top a dual Cayman, Antilles, which will be a '6990'.

If nothing else then the release of 6xxx should drop the price of 5xxx significantly.

Perf/mm^2 has gone up by about 20-30% so they should be able to drop the price by the same amount, if they actually had any competition from Nvidia which they don't.