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
I am a bit disappoint : [
Oh well, AMD will still be my choice
I'll probably hang on to my card and update when the 7xxx series comes along, but the release of the 6xxx should significantly push down the prices of the 5xxx series, thereby giving the consumer greater choice, which can only ever be a good thing.
These arnt 5770s or 5870s they're new chips.
There is still the possibility though that it is a ploy by AMD to confuse nVidia... I hope it is.:shadedshu
Strange how things have changed already. When I thought of NV the last few years, I thought of big monolithic GPUs running hot enough to cook on. Now ATI seems to be going towards the kitchen and NV the opposite. Well since the 104 came out.
Doesn't really matter to me who wins as long as they both get competitive on prices again. Put an end to the overpriced insanity.
And of course considering i have no cash and the fact that most game devs are still pushing out lazy console ports for PC, i'll stick to my ever so powerful GTX 470 for now.
The guy had an 8800GT and felt forced to upgrade, and as such bullied by Nvidia and ATI. What the hell's wrong with an 8800GT? He wanted a top notch card at low end prices, and he already had one.
banning him wasnt necessary though :laugh: just close his thread.
Don't want to stray to off-topic of this thread though.
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I would like to see a better pic of the card; it looks really uncreative.
Something that's had this hype with nearly 30 page threads involving an actual AMD rep; I feel let down; or at least slightly disappointed by the looks.