Thursday, November 11th 2010

Component Shortage Holding Back Radeon HD 6900 Series

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Originally slated for 22 November, AMD's upcoming Radeon HD 6900 series featuring the company's new enthusiast-grade "Cayman" GPU core reportedly ran into delays. A more recent report by VR-Zone suggests that these delays are not because of any yield-issue related to the GPU, but shortage of a new high-grade driver-MOSFET (DrMOS) chip used on the reference board, sourced from Texas Instruments. The said component looks to feature a more compact package compared to the ones commonly made by Renesas and the likes, which is why AMD seems to have chosen it. The TI-made component is in short supply, and is a very recent introduction by its makers. AMD has a knack of using exotic and high-grade components on PCBs of its high-end graphics cards. A driver-MOSFET is a component that combines the driver IC, and MOSFETs into a single package.
Source: VR-Zone

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30 Comments on Component Shortage Holding Back Radeon HD 6900 Series

#26
kn00tcn
mechtechhowever a graphics card usually only has a 2 year life before upgrade time (especially high end gamer cards)
:wtf: other way around, if you get low end, you screw yourself & literally need upgrades faster, not just 'prefer' or 'want'

high end lasts a while, unless you get the last high end before a major change (like the last intel cpus before the magic e6600, or an x800 before dx9c got so big, or a 7900gtx when 8800gtx had its huge jump + dx10)
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#27
CDdude55
Crazy 4 TPU!!!
Software really needs to catch up, we honestly don't need new uber high-end video cards or CPU's right now because we aren't getting the developers to do their part in putting our new shiny parts to work.

You can still survive gaming wise with something like a GTX 260/280, or 4870/4890 and a nicely clocked Core 2 Duo/Quad chip.
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#28
happita
CDdude55Software really needs to catch up, we honestly don't need new uber high-end video cards or CPU's right now because we aren't getting the developers to do their part in putting our new shiny parts to work.

You can still survive gaming wise with something like a GTX 260/280, or 4870/4890 and a nicely clocked Core 2 Duo/Quad chip.
The word "software" is a bit vague. If you mean gaming, I think that the games that are already on the market are more than sufficient enough to test the brute muscle of our hardware. As DX11 matures and tesselation is used in more games, I think we will need GPUs that can keep up with future games if not exceed in performance.
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#29
CDdude55
Crazy 4 TPU!!!
happitaThe word "software" is a bit vague. If you mean gaming, I think that the games that are already on the market are more than sufficient enough to test the brute muscle of our hardware. As DX11 matures and tesselation is used in more games, I think we will need GPUs that can keep up with future games if not exceed in performance.
By software, yes i'm mainly referring to gaming , and no we don't have near the type of software out to take advantage of our hardware. The majority of PC games are poorly done Console ports that could run on a toaster. As you mentioned DX11 and tessellation have still yet to full come out of the wood work fully and when that happens, again, it's still up to the developers to take note and put it to work, otherwise, it's still going to be the same way where devs put Consoles in first class hence leading to less PC innovations and hardware that isn't fully useful to the gamer as it is now.
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#30
Super XP
I don't think AMD is having a parts issue. Though I could be wrong. IMO AMD is tweaking it to ensure optimal performance.
Anyway I am still putting away some money for the HD 6970.
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