Huh, it appears from this article that the successor to the 57?? will be a 68?? the 58?? will be a 69?? http://www.nordichardware.com/news/...d-6870-and-6850-launches-on-october-18th.html
I think we should wait till the release date just to be sure, that recent slide said it was the 67** and it said it would have 1280 shaders.
Looks fake. Why would ATi only use 4200mhz memory on the HD6870 which is 600mhz less than the HD5870?
I do hope they stick to 6870/50/40 6970/80/90 [off topic: in four/five years time... imagine the 9xxx series and how overused the OVER 9000! Meme is going to be then...]
Imagine if it was Nvidia? We'd have the 10000000070 by the end of the decade... Anyway ontopic, I kinda like the sound of that, or 10K70 something like that.
It's a shame they didn't keep an extended naming convention, I would have loved to have a Core i7 3060000000 Hz CPU.
Cos the 6870 is the replacement (per this article) for the 5770. They reckon the 5870 will be replaced by a 6970 and ur cards replacent will be a 6990... I've a headache
Why do people get so het up about numbering schemes, they are just numbers. @Brawl As for Nvdias numbering scheme they went from 8000 series to 9000 series then the 200 series and 400 series can't say thats anything to shout about either