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Soleron said:

I said "in the same price". Barts (6850/6870 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              6850/6870      end_of_the_skype_highlighting 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.

Actually according do Dave Baumann, the mistake was the 58xx series. Barts is correcting a mistake already made, it isn't a mistake in itself. Its the 5870 which doesn't fit into the sweet spot strategy for their high end chip, it is far too large.