Tuesday, March 29th 2011
AMD Readies Radeon HD 6790
On April 5, AMD will release its newest Radeon HD 6000 series GPU, which it has been largely secretive about. The new Radeon HD 6790 is designed to compete with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 550 Ti. The HD 6790 is based on AMD's 40 nm "Barts" GPU (on which are based HD 6850 and HD 6870). The Barts silicon is configured to have 800 stream processors (SPs)...hang on, unlike the 800 SPs on Juniper (HD 5700 series, HD 6770), the 800 SPs (arranged in 10 streaming multiprocessor units) on Barts will be spread across two blocks of 400 SPs each, each block having its own dispatch processor. Also unlike Juniper, Barts LE (HD 6790) will have 32 ROPs, 40 TMUs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface. The core will be clocked at a generous 840 MHz, and 1050 MHz (4.20 GHz effective) memory, churning out 134.5 GB/s memory bandwidth. The GPU is expected to have TDP of under 150W, and will draw power from two 6-pin power connectors.
Source:
NordicHardware
59 Comments on AMD Readies Radeon HD 6790
Oh wait... 460 is more powerful... :respect:
From source: HD 6790 2x6 pin pcie, HD6850 1x6pin... nice joke?
1120 SPS, disabled blocks to 800...
Just lol.
My number dyslexia is kicking in. A 6790? Too close to a 6970. Amd's naming strategy is one helluva marketing ploy. I still think 550Ti will win because it says 'Ti' which obviously makes it faster*. But the 6790 is just the same number as a 6970 so maybe it has it's genes.
6790 gives the impression of a further cut down 6780, 6770 etc.
So, this will be worse than a 6850? Or does the xx90 mean it beats the x850.
Trifle confused. So is this Turks?
* sarcasm alert
GF2ti 3ti 4ti, then it died off.....
Had all of them actually, 3ti was crap so was 4 TI (especially, burned up by just looking at them! I had 9 of them, all of them burned up, RMA, new, burned up, new, burned up, new. my friends had the same problem)
I went to ati with bad drivers, but the card didnt even burn up after 2 years when the fan stopped! 9800pro! rma new fan, still rocking to this date in a w98 pc for legacy games:P
the TI monkier brings me just bad memories, the 2TI was a freaking god sent piece, but it all ended there for me, 4TI was hella fast but issues
just wait till it got wide releases so we can whether or not justifying the price..
and for marketing ploy, who hadn't done that? :shadedshu
HD6750 and HD6770 are already rebranded HD5750/HD5770s and there is no laptop chip with 800 Shaders based on Barts.
Which leaves us to the only logical conclusion, it's a crippled Barts. DIdnt think someone like you wouldn't take the path of logic
Spot it or admit your failure in reading.
1. I clearly stated in the article that it is based on Barts.
2. Your reply to the article:
You were telling me that I was wrong in thinking that HD 6790 was based on another GPU than Barts, when in fact I clearly stated that it was based on Barts. You were hallucinating.
3. I asked you to read the article again, just so you know that you didn't read the part where I clearly stated it was based on Barts.
4. You continued hallucinating that I thought HD 6790 was based on a new GPU and not Barts
5. So I asked out:
6.
Post edit history. Text in red is from the original version (the very first save) of the article. You can see that I mentioned it's based on Barts right from the start.
Seriously, either tell me where you bought that joint, or go back to KG.
So what is the point of your post?