Tuesday, October 19th 2010
AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series Specifications Leaked
Specifications of the upcoming Radeon HD 6800 series GPUs have already been doing rounds for the last couple of days, and ChipHell.com finally managed to leak an alleged press-deck of the HD 6800 series that discloses the GPUs' specifications and some key features that AMD will introduce with this generation. What can be said looking at the slides is that AMD seems to have stepped up performance/die-size big time (up to 35% increase in performance per mm²), with some reconfiguring of key components. It also redesigned the GPUs to have up to 100% increase in tessellation performance, new image-quality enhancements, a new video acceleration engine (UVD 3), and a redesigned display IO with 2nd Gen. Eyefinity technology that can let users of standard variants drive up to six displays with a single card.
Specifications of the HD 6870 are: 1120 stream processors, 32 ROPs, 56 TMUs, 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface holding 1 GB, clock speeds of 900/1050(4200) MHz core/memory(effective), and idle/max board power of 19W/151W. For the HD 6850, it's 960 stream processors, 32 ROPs, 48 TMUs, 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface holding 1 GB, clock speeds of 775/1000(4000) MHz, idle/max board power of 19W/127W.
Source:
ChipHell
Specifications of the HD 6870 are: 1120 stream processors, 32 ROPs, 56 TMUs, 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface holding 1 GB, clock speeds of 900/1050(4200) MHz core/memory(effective), and idle/max board power of 19W/151W. For the HD 6850, it's 960 stream processors, 32 ROPs, 48 TMUs, 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface holding 1 GB, clock speeds of 775/1000(4000) MHz, idle/max board power of 19W/127W.
107 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series Specifications Leaked
Probably under NDA ;~(
Anywho...
Anyway, doesn't matter too much as it pertains to the 6-series..let's just hope that there's no fiddling with clocks with these ones..I think 100/300 is the new low-power clocks, and you'd hope that AMD wouldn't pull the same mistake twice...but you never know.
It's actually looking like a whole lot has changed..so much so I'm actually kinda curious to see how it all pans out.
Looking forward to the release now.
Then I realized it's actually two images superimposed.
It's Barcelona and RV770 mushed into one:
I did the same in PS, just for the giggles:
->
Still waiting for some benchmarks and reviews of these cards..
Yeah, comparing both slides doesn't do a favor to the HD6870.
But i agree, Manufacturer slides mean nothing. Bear in mind though that there aren't actual releases yet - these are still leaks.
Will they beat the 460's? Probably. Will be proces the same? Like shit they will.
And why are we quibbling about the Barts ones? I want Cayman ffs!
www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/warning-nvidia-19675-drivers-can-kill-your-graphics-card/7551
And their gfx chips never had problems....
www.tomshardware.com/news/HP-Having-Nvidia-Chipset-Issues,7669.html
And for the record, I CTD playing MoH with my 5850's so they're not perfect either. Can we have a third gfx company please?
Basically, I think your statement is a little strong, and more than a little exaggerated.
All that being said, 32 ROP FTW! They look like nice cards, but unfortunately I think I'll be passing on this round...
ati 6 series looks good but time will only tell with their drivers.
Stability, most of that is not due to the drivers, but the users and their expectations/overclocks, games instability, other system issues. I'm a admin for quite a few systems, and almost all have ATI cards, about 7 have Nvidia, and a few have IGP from Intel. I have had zero issues with any, and your comment about CCC is just your being unfamiliar with it. And it being total shit to navigate. I hate the displays settings, it is almost like they purposefully hide certain settings. Right click second display to configure options is just retarded.
The Geforce drivers have also been very good to me with my GTX 470 and much older 8600 GTS.Same here. (though i still want to see benchmarks, reviews, and unboxing videos/pics of this line up :))
Personally, i don't care who wins or who loses: i just want a card that uses low power (idle), is quiet, runs @ low temps (stock cooler) and has performance, in that order.
When i bought this card, nVidia didn't use as low power as ATI and was way hotter, which is why i went with ATI instead of nVidia but i would have gone the other way if tables were reversed.
What i do care, however, is if ATI gets a big lead on nVidia because that will put ATI in Intel's position: to be able to sell their products @ much higher prices (compared to now).
If ATI passes nVidia by a bit, that's fine. If ATI trails nVidia by a bit, that's fine too. If either company gets a big gap against the other, that's BAD ... BAD, i tell you ...