Monday, October 18th 2010
XFX Radeon HD 6850 Pictured, Detailed
After a recent exposé of the XFX Radeon HD 6870, DonanimHaber scored a few pictures of its next HD 6000 series card, the XFX Radeon HD 6850. Unlike the HD 6870 card, the HD 6850 from XFX makes use of XFX' own design for both PCB and cooler. The card is shorter than the HD 6870 by a fair bit, and makes use of typical XFX styling on the cooler shroud and rear panel. The cooler seems to be a circular fan-heatsink over the GPU, it's not known whether the memory and VRM have heatsinks too. Display connectivity includes two DVI, and one each of HDMI 1.4 and DisplayPort 1.2.
The card carries 960 stream cores, contradicting an older report, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface. The core is clocked at 775 MHz, and memory at 1000 MHz (4 GHz GDDR5 effective). Expect it to be out on the 22nd of this month, at a highly competitive price for its performance level.
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DonanimHaber
The card carries 960 stream cores, contradicting an older report, and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit wide memory interface. The core is clocked at 775 MHz, and memory at 1000 MHz (4 GHz GDDR5 effective). Expect it to be out on the 22nd of this month, at a highly competitive price for its performance level.
80 Comments on XFX Radeon HD 6850 Pictured, Detailed
I damn nda's :laugh:
Confirmed by OCUK manager, stock won't show on site until the NDA ends on the 22nd.
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. :/
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.
XFX card looks very nice, I love the red and black combo :D
Hopefully HIS will have an ICEQ solution;)
There is a bunch more images like that out there with like 4 or 6 chips on them, they all look very wrong :laugh:could be 3870 or 4870 as that pic was made before the 5870 came out. same output setup as my 4870.
I am happy that the 6850 is the 960 shader card, not the 6870. there is some hope now XD