Wednesday, October 20th 2010
AMD Radeon HD 6850 PCB Pictured
Barely a couple of days ahead of its launch, the first picture of the Radeon HD 6850 taken apart made its way to the internet. We were treated to the pictures of the HD 6870 PCB last week. AMD's release-grade reference design PCB is not as long as that of the HD 6870, it keeps up with the black color, and is available as either a premium 8-layer version, or a cost-effective 6-layer one. This particular one makes use of a 4+1+1 phase VRM, a CHIL-made VRM controller that might support software voltage control, power input from a single 6-pin PCI-E power connector, one CrossFire connector, and display connectivity that includes two DVI, one HDMI, and two mini-DisplayPort connectors. From the information available to us from recent reports, the Radeon HD 6850 has 960 stream processors 32 ROPs, 48 TMUs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface holding 1 GB of memory. Its core is clocked at 775 MHz, and memory at 1000 MHz (4000 MHz GDDR5 effective).
Source:
HardwareLuxx.de
32 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 6850 PCB Pictured
leave the 6850 damned paparazzi how many pictures can you take?
I can't wait to see what these can do on friday, also i'm kind of curious if the 6850's vrm's have temperature sensors as it would be nice to see how hot they get with it being a different design to most other recent ati/amd gpu's.
Plus why the hell are the caps in the back? I liked the idea of having them near the exhaust
Just want to hurry up and see the reviews and benchmarks.:)
The 48xx and 58xx cards the vrm's were always hotter than the core, the crazy temps of them were why i never ran my 4870 with the stock cooler and even then the core temp never effected my overclocking/overvolting it was always the vrm temp that i had to keep an eye on.
Anyway, only 1x 6-pin is impressive.
But i think your right, the fact that the 6870 is supposed to draw 1w over the limit of a 6 pin with the pci-e supply should mean if it's more power it wants it has the hardware to suck a lot more out of your psu than the 6850 so hopefully with a little overvolting the 6870 should get some nice increases, hopefully hitting 1ghz with ease or more.