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[Pandora92]

If the equivalent of the updated 5850 and 5870 were called the 6950 and 6970 though, what would they call the 5970's update? I suppose it could be 6990, but that sort of messes up their naming scheme.

[redddraggon]

If the equivalent of the updated 5850 and 5870 were called the 6950 and 6970 though, what would they call the 5970's update? I suppose it could be 6990, but that sort of messes up their naming scheme.

Didn't the 5970 screw up the naming scheme anyway? Shouldn't the 5970 really have been called the 5870X2?

[scaryjim]

Shouldn't the 5970 really have been called the 5870X2?

I believe at the time they spun out a press story along the lines of "because the GPUs run at much lower clock speeds than a 5870 it wouldn't be fair to call it a 5870 X2, so we're calling it a 5970 instead, which makes its performance point (i.e. better than a 5870) clearer." I believe there was some speculation after the 4890 was released (but long before 5k saw the light of day) that the naming convention would be changed for the 5k series as it might not be immediately obvious that a 4850 X2 was a higher performance class of graphics card than a 4890.

Perhaps they figure that they won't need a dual-gpu card this time around, and that's why they're changing?

If they do move to using 6970 as their highest performance single GPU product, I'd assume they would fall back to using X2 nomenclature for any doubled-up cards: so maybe we'll get a 6870, a 6970, then a 6870 X2 as the top of the performance bandwagon? Because that wouldn't be confusing at all