Thursday, October 14th 2010
AMD HD 6000 Northern Islands Feature Slides Leaked
AMD is close to unveiling its next-generation "Northern Islands" GPU family, which will be branded under the AMD Radeon HD 6000 series. These include two new performance-thru-extreme GPUs, namely Barts and Cayman. There's also a dual-Cayman implementation codenamed Antilles. While specifications are anyone's guess besides the little details we know about Barts and Cayman, the feature-set of the Northern Island family was communicated to AIB parts in a presentation which was leaked by the Chinese press.
To begin with, the key feature additions in Northern Islands includes a much more evolved display logic that can drive five displays simultaneously over physical outputs that include two dual-link DVI-I, one HDMI 1.4 (full-size), and two mini DisplayPort 1.2 connectors. The logic also provides you to install up to six monitors over the two DisplayPort connectors by daisy-chaining them, making use of the MultiStream feature of DP 1.2, which supports two times the data-rate of DP 1.1, and can provide very high-resolution display, or HD display with stereoscopic 3D (120 Hz). HDMI 1.4 lets you make use of Blu-ray 3D. A new video processing engine, UVD 3.0, provides GPU acceleration for MPEG-2, DivX, MVC (multi video coding), for Blu-ray 3D.
As far as performance incentives are concerned, Northern Islands does seek to add significant performance incentives over previous generations, its also comes up with a new naming scheme. Radeon HD 6800 series will be a gamer's sweet-spot performance SKU (competitive with the lower models of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 400 series, such as GTX 460), while Radeon HD 6900 series is purely for the entusiast, competitive with the higher-end models of the GeForce GTX 400 series, such as GTX 470 and GTX 480. A new king-of-the-hill SKU that succeeds the Radeon HD 5970 is also planned.
Some micro-technical details of the Barts-based and Cayman-based SKUs were also revealed. Barts XT and Barts Pro are slated for later this month, Cayman XT and Cayman Pro for late November, just in time for the winter shopping season. New relevant details include:
Source:
ChipHell
To begin with, the key feature additions in Northern Islands includes a much more evolved display logic that can drive five displays simultaneously over physical outputs that include two dual-link DVI-I, one HDMI 1.4 (full-size), and two mini DisplayPort 1.2 connectors. The logic also provides you to install up to six monitors over the two DisplayPort connectors by daisy-chaining them, making use of the MultiStream feature of DP 1.2, which supports two times the data-rate of DP 1.1, and can provide very high-resolution display, or HD display with stereoscopic 3D (120 Hz). HDMI 1.4 lets you make use of Blu-ray 3D. A new video processing engine, UVD 3.0, provides GPU acceleration for MPEG-2, DivX, MVC (multi video coding), for Blu-ray 3D.
- Cayman XT and Pro SKUs will feature 1 GB of GDDR5 memory
- Cayman XT will make use of new 6 Gb/s GDDR5 chips, likely to increase memory bandwidth by 20%; Cayman Pro will also see a 20% increase in memory bandwidth, over previous generation
50 Comments on AMD HD 6000 Northern Islands Feature Slides Leaked
...assuming this is all true of course...
I do think that there's some kind of cold war between AMD and Nvidia going on right now, where none of them want to release the atom bomb, because they know that both could retaliate in one way or another. They are both better without the price war that occured during the G92/RV670 and GT200/RV770 era.
Power consumption is soo high... only one GPU uses 200% what whole ps3 need to show the same thing on screen, ehh.
Actually performance wise the PS3 would be something in between the 16w HD 4550 and the 36w GT430. :roll:
---update---These were my words^^
Or similarly how is that when Vettel and Webber are in the same situation, one of them suddenly has to conserve tyres because they are soooo deteriorated, yet 20 laps later with the same tyres, it does 5 consecutive fastest lap records? :rolleyes:
I saw those things long before Ferrari did what they did and oh man was so obvious. So I think I have more praise than blame for Ferrari, because they were caught because they were naive and unlike the others they didn't have secret codes put in place... :shadedshuStereo 3D in the PS3 is not actual Stereo 3D, so again it's not the same and Avatar game is a Crappy console port, but let's not get started...
i think this was the mark that AMD will make super GPU again
The ps3 gpu simply can't do the same effects as more modern gpus.
Hell the ps3 can't even render things that the 360 gpu can render.
For example
360
ps3
Ps3 apparently hate's grass or something.
You may not notice it whilst your playing a game, but the consoles drop FUCK tons of things out of the games to speed them selfs up.
Things like reflections are rendered at a lower resolution the ps3 compensates for this by blurring the crap out of it but it still looks awful.
Comparison between pc/xbox/ps3 also mafia II
Same thing my boots XD
Back to thread please.
I'm looking forward to see techPowerUp review on Barts:>
Can be done, just requires under-volting and the right combination of parts : ]
You are right though, did miss it first time round.
Sorry! : ]
:laugh:
Just as silly dude :toast:
Obvious stuff is obvious and doesn't need to be discussed before an argument does occur. If you can't comprehend rendering power and power consumption between a PC and Console, make a thread about it elsewhere or put google to go use.
I'm just saying..