Anything & Everything 6xxx Series GPU's

[DrNip]

Radeon HD 6970 "Antilles" launches in December
Graphics | 2010/08/26 11:51 | Anton Karmehed

AMD recently revealed bits on its coming graphics architecture and after some digging we found information about what circuits will appear in 2010, and that includes Antilles sporting dual GPUs; to be known as Radeon HD 6970.
According to reliable sources, the Radeon HD 6000 family will consist of three different series; Antilles, Caymen and Barts. Where the last one will be the first one out.

Barts will replace AMD Juniper in the mid-range segment and most likely be named Radeon HD 6700 series. The launch is scheduled for October 2010. The code-name most likely comes from Saint-Barthélemy (Saint Barts), which is a Frech island in the Caribbean. On a side note, Saint Barts was a Swedish colony between 1784-1878, which can be seen on the island shield with its three crowns.

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The West Indies have given names to several of AMD's new circuits

Caymen will replace Cypress and take over in the performance segment from Radeon HD 5870, 5850 and 5830. Exactly what models that will launch is uncertain, but the cards are expected to reach stores in November 2010 in the form of the Radeon HD 6800 series. Catalyst 10.8 lists 14 different Cayman models (more on that later). The GL models are a bit illusive at the moment, but could very well just be the FireGL versions of AMD's professional family. The Cayman Islands can also be found in the Caribbean, Weest Indies and have been named after the native tounge for alligator (caiman).

Antilles sports graphics circuits of the Caymen series, but as the successor to Hemlock it uses two of these with each card. This dual-GPU card looks to launch in two versions, like much Radeon HD 4850 X2 and 4870 X2. If there is any room for the entry level model of Antilles is hard to say, but in December 2010 we can expect the first Antilles models in stores. Antilles is named after the islands with the same name, a group of islands divided into two groups; Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles.

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AMD to use dual graphics circuits with Radeon HD 6000 family

AMD Radeon HD 6970 will probably be the name of the top model of the series and should launch in December.
We still fairly little about the changes made to the architecture since Evergreen, but from what it looks like AMD has plcaed itself in top of NVIDIA Fermi, but also lowered energy consumption.

We hope to offer more details soon, not the least more on the mid-range and entry level cards that are slated to appear early next year.


SOURCE:

http://www.nordichardware.com/news/71-graphics/40931-radeon-hd-6970-qantillesq-launches-in-december.html

[DrNip]

[Exclusive] "Bart's" comes as the first offshoot of the new graphics card series

The new graphics card generation, the direct successor of the current HD5000er series, is due out later this year, in this regard we have received new information from an industry-related source. So shall have already come in the middle of next October, the first offshoot of the new HD6000er series and the code name "bear Barts.

The small branch is located in view of the performance between a current HD5770 and HD5870. In addition comes an eight-layer PCBs, 1GB GDDR5 memory with 5Gbps and 2x6pin power connectors are used. The TDP of the new pixel accelerator should be slightly higher than 150W and when connections are 2xDVI, HDMI, 2xMini-DP, with the support of Eyefinity 4, available. Moreover, the chip of the "beard" Pinkomaptibel with PCB is the HD5800, which will reduce production costs significantly. The above specifications refer to "Barts XT.

For more information we receive relate to the GPU "Cayman", which is October to appear in November. This information confirmed our of 16 July this year. This GPU is a 10-layer PCBs and large 1GB GDDR5 memory with 6Gbps have. The graphics card needs to power a 6pin and 8pin power connector, the TDP comes to less than 300W. The connections are 2xDVI, HDMI, and 2xMini-DP.

Also the code name for the upcoming dual-graphics card of the new generation is already known to us. This carries the code name "Antilles" and will be AMD's new spearhead. We keep you informed.



SOURCE:

http://news.ati-forum.de/index.php/news/34-amdati-grafikkarten/1459-exklusiv-qbartq-erster-ableger-neuer-grafikkartenserie

[Kal-EL]

wallet jumps outa pocket and hides under the sofa, :D

[GFDuke]

wallet jumps outa pocket and hides under the sofa, :D

Im with you on that.

http://jbpainting.net/eyeball.gif

[HITandRUN]

wallet jumps outa pocket and hides under the sofa, :D

You think! :ohcrap:

[Witchdoctor]

And the sad reality is, we will all have one sooner or later .....

Might as well head over to the 12 step program thread now and avoid the Christmas rush .......... :ohcrap:

[DrNip]

I started putting a lil cash away this week for one by new years.

[Witchdoctor]

:rofl

Is that the Newegg Layaway plan ? :laughing:

Here anything on the price of admision for a 6870 ?

[DrNip]

No that's the stuff it somewhere my wife doesn't know about it plan! Dunno how much they will be. I pray $400.

[Witchdoctor]

I heard that bro .......... :thumbsup:

if it does take the speed crown $ 400 may be wishful thinking .... :ohcrap:

[DrNip]

Oh it is. $500 price tag out again.

[Kal-EL]

Oh it is. $500 price tag out again.
better than an $800 8800Ultra :morpheus:

[Neuromancer]

better than an $800 8800Ultra :morpheus:

Well 8800 Ultra was a better card than the 9800 series (except the gx2) at an serious resolution wasn't it? IIRC it competed and bested (by a FPS or two) with the 285 at 2560x1600.

That is the last nice thing I will say about that $5 crack whore of a company. (My dismissal of green shit spans 10 years nuff said)

[DrNip]

OK guys, screenshots are starting to roll out.

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SOURCE:

http://we.pcinlife.com/thread-1498296-1-1.html
http://we.pcinlife.com/thread-1500103-1-1.html

[Kal-EL]

Thats pretty quick, I guess these cards are getting into peoples hands already, cool.

[Neuromancer]

DAMMMMNNN

Here is splaves 24499 score on a 5870 for comparison


Good VGA score compared to a 1300/1200 5870!

[DOM]

DAMMMMNNN

Here is splaves 24499 score on a 5870 for comparison


Good VGA score compared to a 1300/1200 5870!
i got 24869 at 1030 core :Dizzy: but also with a 980

but they look good cuz of the cpu score isnt very high so if its with a 980 + 1300 core i would say cover 30k it should get :shock:

[Neuromancer]

Yeah.. I saw the CPU score on the 6000 review and was like what... please.

then I saw splaves cpu score and went.. H.S. its higher!!!

I would ASSUME this is not the new "6870" (new nomenclature excuded... going on current just adding a 6) but assume this is the 6970.

No way did ATI jump near 100% performance AND lower power.



In reality... what these screenies means is

a) wait and see

b) nVidia has to change their green diapers. nVidia might be the new AMD. (If they price their 6 month lineup correctly, doubtful since it is nVidia)

[DOM]

i went through the ss again an noticed in the heaven benchmark its a i7 930 @ stock :laughing:


but well have to wait and see when they come out

[DrNip]

AMD Radeon HD 6800 series might launch in 2011?
By Hilbert Hagedoorn, September 3, 2010 - 8:46 PM



A Polish tech site PCLab claims an AMD employee leaked information about the launch dates of upcoming Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards. The site claims the Radeon HD 6000 series will be more than a minor refresh, and that the card will be more power efficient and be faster clock-for-clock than the current generation.

AMD will reportedly first release entry-level and mainstream Radeon HD 6000 graphics cards sometime in the fourth quarter of this year, but where it gets a little bit weird is that the dual-GPU Radeon HD 6970 will allegedly arrive first by Christmas 2010, with the Radeon HD 6800 cards to follow in early 2011.

Widespread rumours suggest that the first release is indeed a mainstream card - the Radeon HD 6700 series - on October 13th 2010. However, the schedules of the other HD 6800 and HD 6970 come as a surprise, especially the dual-GPU HD 6970 releasing before the HD 6800 series. Of course, the HD 6970 being a dual-GPU HD 6770 is also a possibility. The other cards in the family - HD 6500/6600/etc., are not mentioned explicitly, though it is implied they might release before the HD 6800 series.

SOURCE:
http://www.guru3d.com/news/amd-radeon-hd-6800-series-might-launch-in-2011/

[FACE]

meh... marketing. Always in our way!

[Kal-EL]

After weeks of speculations and false rumors we at NordicHardware have managed to dig up the most important details on AMD's new graphics card series, Radeon HD 6800. Targeting the mid-range segment AMD will launch Radeon HD 6850 and HD 6870 on October 18th.
Back in August we could confirm that AMD would stir things up by naming the mid-range series Radeon HD 6800. The GPU "Barts" is the successor to Juniper GPU of the Radeon HD 5700 series, but it is being moved up a notch. The list of specifications that was leaked at several sites last week said that Barts would launch as Radeon HD 6700, which made us wonder about the authenticity of the document. We have had it confirmed that our previous information on Barts and Radeon HD 6800 were correct, which we can now back up with detailed specifications and launch dates.
AMD Radeon HD 6850 (Barts Pro) and HD 6870 (Barts XT) will launch on October 18th (19th in some countries, if nothing gets changed in the last minute) and the new Northern Islands architecture is tuned and optimized for better performance per watt. We should not expect any revolutionary improvements over current models, but more on that soon.
SpecificationsRadeon HD 5770Radeon HD 5850Radeon HD 6850Radeon HD 6870GPUJuniper XTCypress ProBarts ProBarts XTManufact. tech.40nm40 nm40 nm40 nmGPU frequency850 MHz725 MHz725 MHz850 MHzStream processors800
1440.800.960Memory frequency4 800 MHz4 000 MHz4 000 MHz4 200 MHzMemory bus
128-bit256-bit256-bit256-bitMemory buffer
1 GB GDDR51 GB GDDR51 GB GDDR51 GB GDDR5Power consumption
108 watt151 watt~ 120 watt >150 wattRel. Performance
--Better than 5830Better than 5850
Barts will bring at most 960 stream processors, which should be proof enough that this is a mid-range circuit, and not to play with the big boys. Little brother Radeon HD 6850 will settle for 800 stream processors and lower clock frequency, but AMD has also revised the texture units and efficiency of the stream processors, which makes the numbers a bit misleading when compared directly to previous generations.
http://www.overclockaholics.com/images/labswedish/artiklar/Grafik/hd.6800/largethumbnails/juniper.jpg (http://www.overclockaholics.com/images/labswedish/artiklar/Grafik/hd.6800/fullimages/juniper.jpg)
AMD Juniper will be replaced by Barts on October 18th

Radeon HD 6870 will, according to reliable sources, perform better than today's Radeon HD 5850. Not to bad for a card that is intended to replace Radeon HD 5770, but at the same time makes the naming scheme a bit confusing.
Little brother Radeon HD 6850 will in turn be a bit slower than Radeon HD 5830, but consume a lot less power. This isn't all bad, but it will be confusing for buyers as the new mid-range model should outperform the lower ranked cards of the previous generation.
As we mentioned above, AMD has focused on performance/per watt with the new architecture. With the same 40nm technology it has refurnished and tweaked the Evergreen architecture and managed to find a lot of extra performance. The power consumption of Radeon HD 6850 will be well below 150 watt, around 120 watt according to our sources. While Radeon HD 6870 will be sucking well above 150 watt, which puts it on par with Radeon HD 5850, a card it should outperform with margin to spare.
The biggest reason AMD starts off the new family with Barts is the market focus. Radeon HD 6850 and HD 6870 has been trained to hunt down and kill NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, the graphics card NVIDIA is building its volume sales upon. AMD has no strong competitor for GTX 460 today, but it hopes to change this with the Radeon HD 6800 series.
GeForce GTX 460 is also the reason for the confusing naming scheme. The GeForce GTX 400 series was built upon NVIDIA's GF100 GPU, but when NVIDIA launched GTX 460 with the stripped down GF104 GPU and still put it part of the GTX 400 series AMD saw no other solution but to follow and move up its mid-range cards in the hierarchy. On a positive note the coming Caymen series, to replace Radeon HD 5800 in the performance segment, will also move up the ladder to avoid any confusion within the own ranks.
AMD RadeonEvergreen 40nm (2009-2010)Northern Islands 40nm (2010-2011)Mid-rangeRadeon HD 5700 (Juniper)Radeon HD 6800 (Barts)PerformanceRadeon HD 5800 (Cypress)
Radeon HD 6900 (Caymen)High-endRadeon HD 5900 (Hemlock)Radeon HD 6990 (Antilles)
AMD Radeon HD 6870 will according to sources to NordicHardware be a pure reference product that will be sold ready-to-ship from AMD to partners. In other words, packaging and stickers on the reference cooler will be the only difference at launch.
AMD Radeon HD 6850 on the other hand will be available in tailored suits from the major partners, which will hopefully result in some unorthodox solutions and cool third-party designs.
We don't have any concrete pricing to offer just yet, but considering AMD is countering GeForce GTX 460 they should appear in the $150-250 segment.

SOURCE: http://www.nordichardware.com/news/71-graphics/41251-amd-radeon-hd-6870-and-6850-launches-on-october-18th.html

[Neuromancer]

Well someones wrong

Last I read Barts was the 6700 series, less powerful than a 5870 and was pushed till November :s

[spfoam1]

An old song come to mind......Anticipation.

[Neuromancer]

LOL apparently the nvidia releases spooked them and it has been moved back to OCt 19th... (vice original oct 12th)

Same person that reported the delay reported the change to the 19th as well.. over at digitimes.

[DrNip]

I'll believe it when I see it. Got to wait for Oct. 19th .

[Hondacity]

wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo these look good

[thebanik]

Dont know the Release Date but October Release is confirmed for HD6800, I have one coming in for Review next week, yipee......:P

[Neuromancer]

Sweet Deal !

[Kal-EL]

Dont know the Release Date but October Release is confirmed for HD6800, I have one coming in for Review next week, yipee......:P

Whats the high end sku for the 6 series?

[OC Maximus]

lol, nice avatar Supps.

OCM :thumbsup:

[Kal-EL]

Whats the high end sku for the 6 series?

lol, nice avatar Supps.

OCM :thumbsup:
thx man :)

[DrNip]

On top of saving for Sandybridge need to save a little for one of these. :D

AMD Radeon HD 6870 Reference Design Looks Refined, Ready to Market
Here it is, the AMD Radeon HD 6870, all dressed up to go to work. There has been quite some speculation surrounding the naming scheme AMD is going to adopt with the HD 6000 series, but fresh information suggestively lays some of that to rest. Firstly, Radeon HD 6800 series is built around the "Barts" GPU, not "Cayman". Barts is a new performance GPU, though isn't the highest-end single GPU from AMD (which is reserved for Cayman). Barts "XT" is Radeon HD 6870, and Barts "Pro" is HD 6850. Pictured below is the HD 6870. At a purely subjective glance, the HD 6870 reference design card seems to be as long as the HD 5850 reference.

The new Radeon logo has been Photoshopped on to the fan, so the products in market will definitely do away with the older ATI logo. The rear panel resembles that of the Radeon HD 5800 series, except that the exhaust grille seems slightly wider, there are two DVI-I connectors, one standard HDMI, and two mini DisplayPort connectors for a change. The connector output sharing scheme isn't known right now, it could be 3 or 4 head Eyefinity, or all-out 5 head Eyefinity, a yet to be detailed "Eyespeed" feature is mentioned. We will definitely know more about this card in the weeks to come.

http://i.tpucdn.com/img/10-10-08/39a_thm.jpg (http://www.techpowerup.com/img/10-10-08/39a.jpg) http://i.tpucdn.com/img/10-10-08/39c_thm.jpg (http://www.techpowerup.com/img/10-10-08/39c.jpg) http://i.tpucdn.com/img/10-10-08/39b_thm.jpg (http://www.techpowerup.com/img/10-10-08/39b.jpg)

Source: it.com.cn
posted by btarunr - 8:39 AM | Related News

SOURCE:

http://www.techpowerup.com/132432/AMD-Radeon-HD-6870-Reference-Design-Looks-Refined-Ready-to-Market.html

[DrNip]

Am I reading this correctly? 6870 will be 20% faster than a GTX 460 and around $250? Am I missing something? Shouldn't the 6870 be going up against the GTX 480 and around $500? I think there is a typo or something.

Radeon HD 6870 faster than GTX 460

Some 20+ percent

The latest that we have gathered about AMD's controversial new graphics cores, codenamed Barts (not Simpson ed.) claim that Radeon HD 6870 should easily be faster than a Geforce GTX 460 1GB.

This also implies that this card should be priced slightly higher than a Geforce GTX 460 1GB, so we expect that Radeon HD 6870 should cost around €250 / $250 USD if not a few bucks cheaper.

We are hearing that the performance gain on average with the new Barts XP part is around 20 to 25 percent but on the same time, we hear that Radeon HD 6870 won't be that much faster than the current 5870.

The good part is that despite the controversies Cayman XP and PRO cards should ship in about a month's time, being significantly faster than Cypress based Radeon HD 5870 series available today.

The official launch should take place next week.

Source:

http://fudzilla.com/graphics/item/20456-radeon-hd-6870-faster-than-gtx-460

[Chuchnit]

Am I reading this correctly? 6870 will be 20% faster than a GTX 460 and around $250? Am I missing something? Shouldn't the 6870 be going up against the GTX 480 and around $500? I think there is a typo or something.





Nope. According to the internet, they changed the naming scheme again. 6800 series will be in a hybrid performance bracket like the 5830, 5770 and such was in. I'm guessing the performance bracket, aka 5850 & higher, will be 6900?

[Gunslinger]

I heard a rumor that the new high end will be a 6970 and not the 6870. If that's true then I think the dual core cards will return to the X2 label, aka 6970X2

[thebanik]

I heard a rumor that the new high end will be a 6970 and not the 6870. If that's true then I think the dual core cards will return to the X2 label, aka 6970X2

Yup thats what the rumors suggest. Also as per that TPU article, a few cards will be simply rebranded from 57XX to 67XX.