Report: AMD May Soon Launch Radeon HD 6930
It appears that AMD is preparing a new variant of the Radeon 6000-series to compete with Nvidia's GTX 560 graphics card.
According to Chinese site MyDrivers, AMD may be releasing a Radeon HD 6930 card, code-named Cayman CE, which will get 1280 stream processors and 80 texture units, down from 1408 and 88 on the Radeon HD 6950. The GPU clock will drop to 750 MHz and the memory will fall to 4800 MHz.
The board will be available with a 256-bit memory interface and a choice of 1 GB or 2 GB of GDDR5 memory. Expect the 6930 to be priced below $200.
In related news, Fudzilla also got its hands on the upcoming Radeon HD 7000 supposed pricing. The actual numbers should not be too surprising. The HD 7950 will apparently be debut with a target price of $449, while high-end HD 7970 cards should cost $549.

Do you actually believe in what you're saying?
6870=2016 GFLOPS 6950=2253 GFLOPS
however, i do suspect that amd might somehow screw up drivers for this card
if it's priced under $200, it'll provide some serious horsepower for cheap gaming rigs.
i'd love to see it compete against 6870 and gtx 560 and gtx 560 448 core.
If you have acres of space, and ample power, I guess this will give fps on a budget, at the cost of space/noise/heat/power.
Do you actually believe in what you're saying?
It's a fact they'll charge more than they are worth, if you compare them against the 6000s, and we still ought to see how good the 7000 are.
In the end, it all comes down to cost/performance ratio.
It's not about necessity, but about cost effectiveness. It's probably gonna be hd6970 with some resources blocked. So it's basically recycling chips that dint't work as 6970 or 6950.
Paper launch, wont see in the shops till next year and even benchmarks will have to wait
Umm, doesn't the Radeon HD 6870 already compete with the GTX 560? This card is made to compete with the GTX 560 Ti since the HD 6950 1GB is 5-10% faster than it and priced accordingly; that's why it's rumored to be sub-$200.
And what was the mistake of the 5830? It seemed like a good card to me!
It runs as fast as the 4890 did.
I've got a 4870 and that is about equal to a 5770 and 6770 which I think is plenty of power for most games so I won't be upgrading any time soon. I think it will be capable of playing Diablo 3 so I'm not too concerned.