Well, this is a 5770 @ £130 tread, and someone said that the 5770 will be replaced soon.
All I said was that it wont be as there is no new HD 6000 card coming out at £130 anytime soon.
When I look at the Barts specification, I blatantly see a 5850 replacement, not a 5770 replacement as a lot of people are expecting it to be.
The thing you're missing is that if the call another card a 770 then they can't somehow make a card with ANOTHER name thats a current 5770 replacement, and THEY ARE.
There will be a 800 shader(maybe 768shader, again depends on granularity, you can't get 800 shaders from 64 shader clusters), which will likely have higher gddr5 memory speed, better "quality/efficiency" shaders and likely 20-30% faster than a current 5770, that WILL be in the £90-130 bracket for 2 or three different versions of it.
For no apparent reason people think the 6770 HAS to be a 5770 but 20-30% faster, the fact that they are essentially adding another price point into the line up has everyone utterly confused despite the utter simplicity. if every card gets between 20-35% speed bump in the range, then theres a huge gap between the "new" 5770 and the "new " 5870, so they've added a new price point there and this will be called the 6770, the 5770 replacement will be most likely called a 5670.
I really am not sure why this is confusing.
The price on the actual card in the thread is, frankly ok, it costs more as its single slot, took probably a little extra designing, maybe some extra speed binning to get lower voltage parts that run a little cooler, a different cooler and likely very low sales for the R&D cost which all factors into the cost. On top of the fact that people who can ONLY take a single slot card, have little choice, its a segment to be slightly exploited in price. I'd guess at £130 its got the best price/performance ratio of any single slot card, making it somewhat a bargain.
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