dividebyzero said:
I don't think AMD could effectively name the cards 6750/6770.
Firstly, the are not in the budget-mainstream pricing segment that the previous 4770 and current 5770 occupy.
Secondly, the 5770 is still being retailed, whereas the 5850/5780 have now finished their production runs, so you would have 5770 sales being negatively impacted by the perceived notion that the 6750/6770 "5770 replacement" parts are considerably faster. The other side of the coin is that AMD would suffer in PR if the perceived "5770 replacement" cards carry a substantial price increase over their predecessors.
My question is; Why were these cards not simply called HD 6830 and HD 6850?
the real good news? > MLAA coming to AMD drivers, ( and apparently already hacked to work on 4xxx!) What is MORPHOLOGICAL AA? basically 8xmsaa WITH practically no noticeable impact on performance, as in almost free.
IMO, they are AMAZING cards for the price and I love crazy bang for buck but they should have really left the names the same. Make these the 6700 series and keep the 6800 and then have room for a 6970 (dual GPU 6870 <3).
Someone please tell me why I would need something like this. I'm actually really curious. I mean aside from the geeks who just enjoy building obscenely overpowered gaming rigs. I'm using an nVidia GTX 260 and there isn't a game out there that I can't run on max settings.
Relic said:
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Personally been holding out on upgrading to see what AMD would deliver with these cards and I'm overall pretty satisfied with what I saw in the 6850/70. Now I'm deciding which would serve me best between getting an OC'd 1GB GTX 460 or Radeon 6870.
I am new to your forum and had questions about this review. I was surprised there was no overclocking attemps made on these cards. Over all i loved the review and it did answer some questions but I had to go elseware to find other information.
I have been running a HIS Radeon 4890 for a while now and plan to sell it on Craigslist as i want a DX11 supported card. I looked on Newegg.com and found an OpenBox ASUS 5850 OC for $169 and an ASUS 6870 stock for $181. I was too late to get the 6870 so I got the 5850. Here is where I have a problem. Reading overclockers forums the 5850 is actually better than the 6870. Trust me I was scratching my head on that as well. It can be pushed on the core clock better than the 6870, both run the same speed DDR5 memory, both have 256bit memory interfaces, but the 5850 has more streams, 1440 to 1120 to be exact.
Can anyone confirm this?