Friday, October 8th 2010
AMD Radeon HD 6870 Reference Design Looks Refined, Ready to Market
Here it is, the AMD Radeon HD 6870, all dressed up to go to work. There has been quite some speculation surrounding the naming scheme AMD is going to adopt with the HD 6000 series, but fresh information suggestively lays some of that to rest. Firstly, Radeon HD 6800 series is built around the "Barts" GPU, not "Cayman". Barts is a new performance GPU, though isn't the highest-end single GPU from AMD (which is reserved for Cayman). Barts "XT" is Radeon HD 6870, and Barts "Pro" is HD 6850. Pictured below is the HD 6870. At a purely subjective glance, the HD 6870 reference design card seems to be as long as the HD 5850 reference.
The new Radeon logo has been Photoshopped on to the fan, so the products in market will definitely do away with the older ATI logo. The rear panel resembles that of the Radeon HD 5800 series, except that the exhaust grille seems slightly wider, there are two DVI-I connectors, one standard HDMI, and two mini DisplayPort connectors for a change. The connector output sharing scheme isn't known right now, it could be 3 or 4 head Eyefinity, or all-out 5 head Eyefinity, a yet to be detailed "Eyespeed" feature is mentioned. We will definitely know more about this card in the weeks to come.
Source:
it.com.cn
The new Radeon logo has been Photoshopped on to the fan, so the products in market will definitely do away with the older ATI logo. The rear panel resembles that of the Radeon HD 5800 series, except that the exhaust grille seems slightly wider, there are two DVI-I connectors, one standard HDMI, and two mini DisplayPort connectors for a change. The connector output sharing scheme isn't known right now, it could be 3 or 4 head Eyefinity, or all-out 5 head Eyefinity, a yet to be detailed "Eyespeed" feature is mentioned. We will definitely know more about this card in the weeks to come.
126 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 6870 Reference Design Looks Refined, Ready to Market
making X9XX the highest single GPU card family(Cayman?), an go back to the XXXX X2 for dual GPU cards.
this would make sense marketing wise imo, since they had a bit of a gap in their former naming scheme performance and prize wise
ps AMD needs a new naming scheme, i wont like the future 7870 7850 7770 7750 7650 :D 8870 8850 8770
btarunr's post is saying the opposite. whos wrong here? :)
www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/10/08/amd-radeon-hd-6870-leaked/1
name.as long as it out performs its predessesor.
And thats gooooooood.
Heck, I'm so pissed NV haven't got avivo :rolleyes:
That might help clear up the confusion about "what's under the hood?"
Edit: Here's a supposed "leak" of performance numbers:
Unconfirmed specs: videocardz.com/27194/radeon-hd-6870-and-radeon-hd-6850-unconfirmed-specifications
- It's confusing to the consumers
- Model names normally correlate with price, ie, a 5870 is targeted at a higher price bracket than a 5770, therefore the 6870 is most likely targeting the 5870 price bracket, etc, meaning lower performance for higher price.
- We were finally happy with the previous HD5000 simple naming scheme: x700= mainstream, x800= performance/fastest single GPU, x900= enthusiast/dual GPU.
+1:wtf:Rest of that post: I agree.
but i hope this bart XT perform amazingly so it will justify the naming change,