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Today we noticed that Hexus have translated some information from chinese website xfastest.com. They have shown some benchmark figures from the upcoming HD6850 and HD6870.
Both of these cards have already been pictured and leaked on various Far East sites (shame on you guys!), but this is the first benchmark information we have seen to date. Obviously they are running on pre-release drivers so the scores can be taken lightly.
What it does show however is that the new HD6870 and HD6850 are not direct replacements for the five series cards with the same naming conventions.
KitGuru says: It looks right now that the 6900 series cards will be replacements for the high end 5800 series cards out today. Naming conventions have never been AMD's strong point, as this would further verify. We are sure this is going to cause a fair bit of confusion with the enthusiast audience.
AMD certainly like to keep us on our toes with these names. im confused already.
So 6970 might be a 5870 replacement? im lost 🙂
It appears that 6870 and 6850 are more targetting the GTX460 and mid range boards. 6900 series will be the high end ones for later. maybe 2 months or a month afterwards.
I think AMD is starting to follow the practices of its direct competitors; Nvidia renames their 8800gt>9800gt, also with this 3xx series is just a 2xx series. I am happy AMD is making at least profit now and they can stay alive again. Only this just sucks of them, they only make people confused and tricked. Shame on you AMD, hope you return to your ‘normal’ way of doing things; soon you will end up like Nvidia!!
6870 and 6850 will replace 5700 series.
6970 and 6950 will replace 5800 series.
There will be 6990 also ^^