Has ATI given up the high end race?

[Caribbean Geek]

It seems you are ahead of yourself. Where can I get 6xxx series today? You are assuming that by the time 6xxx comes, it will be faster than 480. You are also assuming that Nvidia have nothing going against that series.

Why it wouldn't be faster than the GTX 480? AMD since the HD 3x00 series, always increased the performance up to 50+% or more per generation, HD 3870X2 matching the HD 4870, HD 4870X2 matching the HD 5870, why it would be hard to match with a single GPU the GTX 480 when the HD 5870 is only 15% slower in average?

In terms of power consumption, 5970 exceed the 300watt mark and use as much electricity as 2x460.

Seriously, $800 vs $400? Back then it was a dual GPU vs a single GPU, but now is dual GPU vs dual GPU...

Neither the HD 5970 nor the GTX 480 hasn't exceeded the 300W limit yet, but odd that the GTX 295 did...

 

[taltamir]

Just wanted to point out to the OP that the answer appears to be no, they are not abandoning the high end. In fact they may be the only option at the high end come end of year. 😉

that question you answered? it was from 2 years ago.
you necroed a thread here.

 

[Tempered81]

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3334&p=22



Many people expected this would happen once they got bought out by AMD. Will this turn NVIDIA into something like Creative (with their soundcards). I think it will be interesting how this generation plays out and what the next generation will bring. I think this will be a major change in the computer industry.

Well i dunno why someone necro'd this thread, but now ATI dominates the high-end... haha!