It's also $1000 USD and the benchmarks AMD released today assumed you're using an AMD 5000 series CPU and new motherboard.
I think the 6800 is going to be the good AMD card for mining as of right now.
the 6900 is 1000.
the 6800 is 649.
if the 6800 does 100mh and 180 watts it will be a great miner.
if the 6800 does 90mh and 200 watts it is okay.
It also needs to be available.