XFX Radeon HD 6850 Pictured, Detailed

Thrackan · Oct 18, 2010

It's about time AMD reveals their stuff, we're almost fighting here

crow1001 · Oct 18, 2010

W1zzard said:
58xx series != hd 5870

So the 6870 is faster than a 5870, confirmed price at OCUK is £211, not bad for 5870 performance. :toast:

Mr McC · Oct 18, 2010

crow1001 said:
So the 6870 is faster than a 5870, confirmed price at OCUK is £211, not bad for 5870 performance.

I assumed that he was drawing attention to the fact that saying "58xx series" is not equivalent to saying "5870", but I'm not sure.

bear jesus · Oct 18, 2010

This is starting to get too much, i just want to sleep through the coming days and wake up to a review.

I damn nda's :laugh:

the54thvoid · Oct 18, 2010

crow1001 said:
So the 6870 is faster than a 5870, confirmed price at OCUK is £211, not bad for 5870 performance.

Could you link that because i can't see it anywhere on overclockers uk? All i see are the usual 58xx parts and still with 5850's at £195 and upwards.

crow1001 · Oct 18, 2010

the54thvoid said:
Could you link that because i can't see it anywhere on overclockers uk? All i see are the usual 58xx parts and still with 5850's at £195 and upwards.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=17595715&postcount=12

Confirmed by OCUK manager, stock won't show on site until the NDA ends on the 22nd.

10TaTioN · Oct 18, 2010

I wonder how much noise this thing does lol.

PS: Can anyone provide me a link where i can read the differences between Series 5k and 6k? I've read it sometime ago, but it seems that Google is only showing me articles with news about pricing of the 6k instead of what i want. :/

Fourstaff · Oct 18, 2010

10TaTioN said:
I wonder how much noise this thing does lol.

PS: Can anyone provide me a link where i can read the differences between Series 5k and 6k? I've read it sometime ago, but it seems that Google is only showing me articles with news about pricing of the 6k instead of what i want. :/

Wait till the end of the week. Then you will be able to see all the details you want.

the54thvoid · Oct 18, 2010

"6850 - Maximum 50pc, competes with GTX 460 768mb and price circa £135 +VAT!
6870 - Maximum 50pc, competes with GTX 460 1GB and replaces 5830, price circa £180 +VAT."

Quoted from that link (thanks btw!).

That infers quite a lot about strategy. 6870 replacing 5830. Does this imply 6950 to trump 470 and 6970 to trump 480?

The problem is, with the 6870 replacing the 5830, which is lesser than the 5850, it means the pricing looks a bit screwed up. A 6870 at £211, replacing the 5830 (cheaper than a 5850) but with 5850's at around £200. Eh?

Yeah, we need benchmarks so we can unravel the mysteries of AMD's pricing and performance strategy.

W1zzard · Oct 18, 2010

W1zzard said:
58xx series != hd 5870

!= means not equal .. -> when someone talks about "58xx series", he is not talking about the 5870 but 5870+5850+5830

nt300 · Oct 18, 2010

mdsx1950 said:
Thats bullshit. I for one know that the 6870 is better than the 5870. Even W1zzard stated so somewhere in a thread.

I can see Wiz talking about HD 6970 being much better than HD 5870 but not HD 6870.

XFX card looks very nice, I love the red and black combo

Mr McC · Oct 18, 2010

W1zzard said:
!= means not equal .. -> when someone talks about "58xx series", he is not talking about the 5870 but 5870+5850+5830

Thanks for clearing that up. That's what I assumed you meant, but others were suggesting that you had stated something entirely different.

Yellow&Nerdy? · Oct 18, 2010

You know what, I was about to post my expectations and speculations, but instead I think I'll just shut up and wait for Friday

HXL492 · Oct 18, 2010

What ever happened to the blower style coolers? :mad:

Hopefully HIS will have an ICEQ solution

bear jesus · Oct 18, 2010

HXL492 said:
What ever happened to the blower style coolers?

Hopefully HIS will have an ICEQ solution

There will be blower syle coolers for the 6850 from what i have read but they will be the more expensive ones, this style of cooler is apparantly cheaper.

Initialised · Oct 18, 2010

6970?

Thrackan · Oct 18, 2010

Initialised said:
6970?

http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/113155_15ati600.jpg

I seriously doubt that since it has two DVI's, what looks like an S-Video connector and a red PCB. This looks like an older card.

bear jesus · Oct 18, 2010

Initialised said:
6970?

http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/113155_15ati600.jpg

You shoudl be asking be asking 6990? not 6970

There is a bunch more images like that out there with like 4 or 6 chips on them, they all look very wrong :laugh:

Thrackan said:
I seriously doubt that since it has two DVI's, what looks like an S-Video connector and a red PCB. This looks like an older card.

could be 3870 or 4870 as that pic was made before the 5870 came out. same output setup as my 4870.

Thrackan · Oct 18, 2010

bear jesus said:
You shoudl be asking be asking 6990? not 6970

There is a bunch more images like that out there with like 4 or 6 chips on them, they all look very wrong

could be 3870 or 4870 as that pic was made before the 5870 came out.

Could be fake as well, but the pic is too low-res to confirm anything. It kinda looks like someone frankensteined alot of stuff together though.

bear jesus · Oct 18, 2010

Thrackan said:
Could be fake as well, but the pic is too low-res to confirm anything. It kinda looks like someone frankensteined alot of stuff together though.

It definatly is fake, a year or more ago there was this image and a bunch more made the exact same way as mock up suggestions for the 5xxx cards, and being asked if they were 5870,5870x2,5970 etc.

CharlO · Oct 18, 2010

Wow, long time no actually liking an xfx, but this one looks good.

Anusha · Oct 18, 2010

wizzard's comments aside...
I am happy that the 6850 is the 960 shader card, not the 6870. there is some hope now XD

bear jesus · Oct 18, 2010

Anusha said:
wizzard's comments aside...
I am happy that the 6850 is the 960 shader card, not the 6870. there is some hope now XD

But now i'm curious how many sp's the 6870 has as i'm sure the rumoured sp's were likly relative to the rumored 800 sp's of the 6850 (in other words wrong :laugh:

).

Anusha · Oct 18, 2010

bear jesus said:
But now i'm curious how many sp's the 6870 has as i'm sure the rumoured sp's were likly relative to the rumored 800 sp's of the 6850 (in other words wrong ).

it will be more than 960, right?

bear jesus · Oct 18, 2010

Anusha said:
it will be more than 960, right?

i think for the past couple generations the xx50 card has either one or 2 simd units disabled from the xx70 core depending on the range, normally 2 for the higher end and 1 for the lower end. but either way i can't even geuss the numbers as i don't know how many sp's there are per simd unit for the 6xxx architecture. damn i want friday to come sooner :banghead:

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