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XFX Radeon HD 6870 Smiles for the Camera

gibbo, when they arrive ( 6970 ) will you have a good stock level or is it going to be limited ?
and maybe you can anser the question what nobody seems to answer for me.
will AMD release all the specs of the cards even 69xx cards tho they are not out right away ?
 
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When ARE the 6970s arriving? Hope OcUK stock more 6970s and at a cheaper price than the 5970s. Actually worked out cheaper to ship one from overseas!
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
Awww, was looking to upgrade my 480 if the 6970 owned it, looks like it's not to be.
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No offence to Gibbo but I do not believe that he or anybody at OCUK are in a position to give performance figures for the tech yet, regardless of NDA, which for a retailer is very unlikely to include in depth benchmark information. To be frank they don’t need any performance figures and arn't interested in performance. What they need is price point, margin and number of cards they are getting.

Unless they have the 69 series sitting in their warehouse to play with, which I very much doubt seen as the release dates seem to be in November somewhere. Anyway I am going to sit back relax and see what happens when it hits the shelfs. Clearly if Gibbo is spot on I will eat some humble pie, but for me… I need to see some benches from a reliable source before I take anything that has been said as gospel.

What I do hope though is that something nice is release before the end of next week as the mrs keeps asking what I want for my birthday, and if its not a new card its going to be a couple more monitors :)
 
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I have to agree with vinceb1
So Gibbo
Have u seen benches or how these cards perform to give such a statement ?
 
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Ejizz said:
^^^
Tri-fire or quad-fire was hardly great in terms of scaling anyway, and is pretty pointless IMO.
If you need more performance you should probably look to Cayman, as IMO it's a bad idea going xfire with midrange when faster single GPU's are an option.

Hopefully AMD continue this trend with everything under the 69XX's as I'm hoping it will lighten the load on the driver team and allow them to focus more resources on innovation and reliability.
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Scaling may not be great at times but its not pointless to the people who really need the extra power to scale enough to keep them at a frame rate threshold..
 
If I was a saleman and I had a lot of old stock to clear I would certainly talk down 68xx/69xx performance:).

My personal opinion is that ATI will aim the 68xx's at the two GTX 460 variants. They shoud comfortably beat NVidia's best seller at slight price premium. I reckon the 6870 will be under £200 within a week of release.
 
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My personal opinion is that ATI will aim the 68xx's at the two GTX 460 variants. They shoud comfortably beat NVidia's best seller at slight price premium. I reckon the 6870 will be under £200 within a week of release.
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The Barts XT/Pro Slide / screenshot that was doing the rounds a few weeks ago said the 68xx cards are to compete directly with the 2 GTX 460 cards.

I don't doubt they will on performance. It's just the odd 68xx pricing that's been guessed about atm that's quite a bit off the mark for the sector that ATi are targeting with these 2 cards.

Ideally, the 6870 shouldn't be over £200 to begin with if it's competing with the 1gb 460. Early adopters premium or not.

Guess we'll find out soon enough though.
 
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