Tuesday, September 7th 2010
AMD ''Caicos'' Radeon HD 6300 Series Reference Board Pictured, Too
Here are the first pictures of the AMD "Caicos" Radeon HD 6300 Series GPU, the company's next entry-level graphics product, successor to the Radeon HD 5400 series. The new GPU is seated on the AMD reference design board which already seems to taken shape as a qualification sample. The design reveals a low-profile, single-slot, passively-cooled card that makes do with just a small heatsink to cool the GPU and two memory chips on the obverse side. While the GPU-Z shot doesn't reveal much, it does give out the GPU identifier "6779", which corresponds to "Caicos" in the latest Catalyst driver. The GPU is said to be built on the 40 nm process, and from the looks of it, connects to DDR3 memory.
More pictures follow.
Source:
ChipHell
41 Comments on AMD ''Caicos'' Radeon HD 6300 Series Reference Board Pictured, Too
So would that make the low end card about as powerful as a 3650?
Hopefully they bring some welcome improvements. It would be great to see a bigger increase between generations while maintaining the smaller power envelope of a low profile passive card. Also I haven't heard much about featureset concerning the 6xx0 series, I wonder what new additions will be there.
I chose ATI overn Vidia for the first time now in AGES over concerns of power consumption, and heat VS the "Fermi" series of nVidias - but I wont make that mistake again.
There is virtually nothing that this damn ATI DOESN'T have at least some minor glitch in :(
If you have problems with a 5850 either your system is screwed or the card is faulty.
Almost every problem I have had, I have been able to resolve. All of them them where/are driver issues and a few other issues relating to no physx support in ATI hardware.
And the few I have not been able to resolve are directly related to the ATI drivers, and I have repeated these faults on other systems with different configurations and even other ATI cards.
At this stage one might argue that since I was ultimately able to resolve all of the issues, then whats my problem? My problem is why buy ANOTHER ATI which I now KNOW will be full of schidt that will need resolving, when I can just go back to nVidia who has ALMOST never let me down? - I'm just saying is all...
Physx support or lack of has never been an issue for me. Just finished Mafia2 and played other games with physx like Batman AA and a few others ,never any problem playing the games on max settings with physx off.
How can my card work perfect but yours doesnt? I play a lot of games and like i said only 1 game had an issue which was fixed in the next driver release.
AMD/ATi makes good hardware. I think they are actually making better hardware than nVIDIA but with crappy, buggy and faulty drivers with tons of problems with games and even the OS. When a major tittle has an issue they took about a month to solve it an generally nVIDIA took one day! (for example the buggy PhysX System Software that came with the Mafia II demo).
Go from nVIDIA to ATi was a huge mistake for me and I wait and wait for nVIDIA and finally they came up with the 460. I bought about two months the GBT 1GB/OC model to upgrade my HD 4850 and never been happier and I playing all my games without any problem.
In the name of the truth, I have one issue with nVIDIA in HAWX. This happens when I turn on DX10.1: img205.imageshack.us/img205/9219/hawxdx10201009041420452.jpg
Also, it seems that the cut down entry card operates on PCIe x8. Shame they didnt MAKE IT x8 and save the x16 slots. This could have made a good secondary card for an x1 x4 or x8 slot. Perhaps production versions will be on x1 or x4. That would be quite sensible.
That heatsink appears to have a small vapour-chamber.