ATi Radeon 67XX - Hardware & Software

[QUOTE][b]A significant jump, if true.[/b] AMD hasn't officially announced anything with regards to the next generation Radeon HD series. We know it's coming, but there's no official word on models, specifications or clock speeds yet. What we do have are potential leaks and the speculation that comes with all of that. This chart has been leaked from two different sources showing the performance leap that will come from the Radeon HD 6700 "Barts" series. It's all unconfirmed, but we certainly hope that they're true, given the claims of significant performance improvements. The chart below comes from Napoleon of ChipHell fame.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://media.bestofmicro.com/Y/Y/263050/original/6700ch.jpg[/IMG] Source: [url]http://www.tomshardware.com/news/radeon-hd-barts-southern-islands,11379.html[/url]

:flashfap: Because that's all there needs to be said.

Wow, the 6770 looks comparable to the 5870. If this is true then I want to know what the 68XX cards will be like.

Until crossfire scales as well as SLI I'll stick with nvidia. I lurv my dual gpu setups.

[QUOTE=xxncxx;25114482]Wow, the 6770 looks comparable to the 5870. If this is true then I want to know what the 68XX cards will be like.[/QUOTE] I think the 6870 will preform better than the 480 at least, its the only way AMD can get back into the super high end market.

[QUOTE=Kialtia;25114607]I think the 6870 will preform better than the 480 at least, its the only way AMD can get back into the super high end market.[/QUOTE] It looks more like the 6770 will preform better than the 480 at least from those charts.

[QUOTE=Nexus435;25114637]It looks more like the 6770 will preform better than the 480 at least from those charts.[/QUOTE] The 5870 is slower than the 480, and the chart indicates that the 6770 is slower than the 5870.

Is this finished numbers or just beta number If you know what i mean.

[QUOTE=ica|kvantum;25115899]Is this finished numbers or just beta number If you know what i mean.[/QUOTE] The specs are finished numbers, actual performance (Not shown) will increase while drivers keep getting updated.

[QUOTE=Kialtia;25116401]The specs are finished numbers, actual performance (Not shown) will increase while drivers keep getting updated.[/QUOTE] ATi driver updates. *giggles* Just kidding. Though it's too bad ATi can't fix their awful multi gpu scaling with drivers.

Update: [quote]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. <table> 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. 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. <table> 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.[/quote] [url]http://www.nordichardware.com/news/71-graphics/41251-amd-radeon-hd-6870-and-6850-launches-on-october-18th.html[/url] [editline]03:27PM[/editline] Pictures and Tables in the article.

Wow, I remember when getting to 1 TFLop was a huge deal, now the 6770 has 2.304 TFLops of computing performance, who the hell knows what is to come of the flagship 6850 and 6870 cards. Even crazier, in some Nvidia conference, they were showing some of the future cards to come around 2013 to 2015, and they will boast over 10 TFLops of computing performance. Move aside Crysis.

Looks like the 5XX0 series with a little extra push behind them. Good news for me though, this will drive the HD5 series down in price, therefor less cost to me! 5870 crossfire here I come :D

Are there any actual games that challenge today's top cards?

Hnnnggggg, The performance.

Every new generation its the same :/

[QUOTE=wingless;25125987]Hnnnggggg, The performance.[/QUOTE] it's a specs board :colbert: They are also clocked higher and have larger buses, so the increase in rates is natural.

[QUOTE=wingless;25125987]Hnnnggggg, The performance.[/QUOTE] Mid-range product. It doesn't replace Cypress. It replaces Juniper. But I guess it had such good performance they bumped it up one notch, maybe so they can increase pricing.

[QUOTE=Dark-Energy;25126339]Mid-range product. It doesn't replace Cypress. It replaces Juniper. But I guess it had such good performance they bumped it up one notch, maybe so they can increase pricing.[/QUOTE] I mean't that as in "Heart attack, So good!".

What equals two HD 5770 in crossfire?

Fucking watermark.

[quote=strikebango;25126608]what equals two hd 5770 in crossfire?[/quote] 5770 cf = 5870 Not completely sure though.

Why would you go crossfire? SLI scales far better. [URL="http://www.techspot.com/review/289-geforce-gtx-480-sli-versus-radeon-5870-crossfire/page10.html"]Link[/URL]

[QUOTE=garrynohome;25126824]Why would you go crossfire? SLI scales far better. [URL="http://www.techspot.com/review/289-geforce-gtx-480-sli-versus-radeon-5870-crossfire/page10.html"]Link[/URL][/QUOTE] Yeah, we get that, that's the third (fourth ?) you said that in the thread.

Completely unrelated: Garrynohome's avatar is creeping me the fuck out.

Fuck it, quad 6990's, or bust. [editline]04:42AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Panda X;25126614]Fucking watermark.[/QUOTE] Yeah, chip hell is one of the worst watermakers i've ever seen... a tiny corner URL is all it needs, not the huge logo too.

[QUOTE=garrynohome;25114551]Until crossfire scales as well as SLI I'll stick with nvidia. I lurv my dual gpu setups.[/QUOTE] Eh, fanboy much? CrossFire scales as well as SLI. The review from TechSpot you pointed only benchmarked NVIDIA-centric games. Plus, they used Catalyst 10.6 for ATI which is real shitty compared to Catalyst 10.9a + 10.9 Catalyst App Profiles. PS: I'm getting another HD 5770 soon. I loved my previous HD 4770 CrossFire setup.

[QUOTE=xboomguy;25127895]Eh, fanboy much? CrossFire scales as well as SLI. The review from TechSpot you pointed only benchmarked NVIDIA-centric games. Plus, they used Catalyst 10.6 for ATI which is real shitty compared to Catalyst 10.9a + 10.9 Catalyst App Profiles. PS: I'm getting another HD 5770 soon. I loved my previous HD 4770 CrossFire setup.[/QUOTE] Don't get Club3D cards. Cooling is not that good in them and they just and just fit one below another in Crossfire. It was quite a thight setup. And they heated up to 90C sometimes.

Nvidia centric games? haha oh wow. Physx is as Nvidia centric as it gets lol. nothing to do with rendering? [editline]02:09PM[/editline] Hmm. might need me one of these cards.

[QUOTE=Bomimo;25128028]Nvidia centric games? haha oh wow. Physx is as Nvidia centric as it gets lol. nothing to do with rendering? [editline]02:09PM[/editline] Hmm. might need me one of these cards.[/QUOTE] Wow. You really know nothing, uh ? :eng99: