meaintsmartI'm confused, so what will Cayman models be named?

NAVI_Zwhats the big deal about the naming? i thought performance was more important than the

name.as long as it out performs its predessesor.

hayder.masternice to see new generation have nothing improve form old generation, it's just like non reference 5870 factory made,still no CUDA-Physics- and 256 bit

Disruptor4Or, instead of naming it 6770, they named it 6870 so that when they release the 7870, it looks like they jumped performance more than they actually did in that same x870 segment.

Mr McCIs that what's going on here? If that is the case, I think it stinks: I can envisage a lot of people not paying too much attention to the changes within the naming scheme and "upgrading" their 5870 to a 6870, only to find that their performance has dived. Given that the cards haven't been released, this is all just supposition and rumours, but I hope you are wrong.

NAVI_Zwhats the big deal about the naming? i thought performance was more important than the

name.as long as it out performs its predessesor.

CDdude55I agree, performance is definitely the main factor in buying the cards. The naming scheme is really just us nitpicking, but the way they named it and the way the performance matches up to the name is different to how they have been doing it in the couple past series of cards, don't see the point in changing something that doesn't need fixing, as all it does is cause confusion.

1. It's confusing to the consumers
2. Model names normally correlate with price, ie, a 5870 is targeted at a higher price bracket than a 5770, therefore the 6870 is most likely targeting the 5870 price bracket, etc, meaning lower performance for higher price.
3. We were finally happy with the previous HD5000 simple naming scheme: x700= mainstream, x800= performance/fastest single GPU, x900= enthusiast/dual GPU.

NdMk2o1o:slap: why would they have cuda and physx when they are both developed by NV? they have stream for gpgpu and well, as I said Physx is an NV (ageia) developed platform so your post makes no sense at all!!

Heck, I'm so pissed NV haven't got avivo :rolleyes:

inferKNOX

1. It's confusing to the consumers
2. Model names normally correlate with price, ie, a 5870 is targeted at a higher price bracket than a 5770, therefore the 6870 is most likely targeting the 5870 price bracket, etc, meaning lower performance for higher price.
3. We were finally happy with the previous HD5000 simple naming scheme: x700= mainstream, x800= performance/fastest single GPU, x900= enthusiast/dual GPU.

CDdude55The naming scheme is really just us nitpicking, but the way they named it and the way the performance matches up to the name is different to how they have been doing it in the couple past series of cards, don't see the point in changing something that doesn't need fixing, as all it does is cause confusion.

Salsooloaccording to Bit-tech, the 6870 is based on the (Barts Pro) and the (Barts XT) is the cheaper version.
btarunr's post is saying the opposite. whos wrong here? :)

www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/10/08/amd-radeon-hd-6870-leaked/1

btarunrBit-Tech is wrong. XT has been the higher variant marker than Pro in ATI since forever.