Monday, October 18th 2010
XFX Radeon HD 6850 Pictured, Detailed
After a recent exposé of the XFX Radeon HD 6870, DonanimHaber scored a few pictures of its next HD 6000 series card, the XFX Radeon HD 6850. Unlike the HD 6870 card, the HD 6850 from XFX makes use of XFX' own design for both PCB and cooler. The card is shorter than the HD 6870 by a fair bit, and makes use of typical XFX styling on the cooler shroud and rear panel. The cooler seems to be a circular fan-heatsink over the GPU, it's not known whether the memory and VRM have heatsinks too. Display connectivity includes two DVI, and one each of HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort 1.2.
The card carries 960 stream cores, contradicting an older report, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface. The core is clocked at 775 MHz, and memory at 1000 MHz (4 GHz GDDR5 effective). Expect it to be out on the 22nd of this month, at a highly competitive price for its performance level.
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The card carries 960 stream cores, contradicting an older report, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface. The core is clocked at 775 MHz, and memory at 1000 MHz (4 GHz GDDR5 effective). Expect it to be out on the 22nd of this month, at a highly competitive price for its performance level.
80 Comments on XFX Radeon HD 6850 Pictured, Detailed
benchies benchies, i wanna see benchies!
and cayman.. is what i'm wondering about.
Awaiting benchmarks!
The red circle on the box reminds me about Samsung Vibrant Bionix ROM boot screen :p
Very nice looking card. :)
I mean nvidias top end card uses 480 cores right? And beats 1600 cores in cypress.
The architecture is the important thing not the core amount.
Anywhom! I woke up this morning thinking it was the 22nd and hoping for lots of cool news to read :laugh:
Oh well the 18th and a few pics are fine too I guess.
Total waste of time posting in them because its a wild guess on the real specs(Usually). :eek: :laugh:
I like what xfx have done with the 6870/50 bracket and it is good to hear that it has 960sp's not 800 but these next few days are going to kind of suck having to wait for the reviews but more so as barts is not what im really interested in, what i want to know is how cayman fairs against the 5870 and 460 sli so i can finally upgrade from my tierd 4870, it's been running for about 21,000+ hours and could proberley do with taking a rest :laugh:
w1zzard "i've run the benchmarks and your statement is not true"
That's what was said :p
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