ATI Radeon 6000 seriers rumor to be released in october

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/0 [...] core-leak/

Yes, I've been following this topic vigourously seeing as im going to be upgrading my graphics card this year, from 9800GT -> 6850? or 5890? although depending on pricing I may choose to buy a 5870? I won't need UVD for a good while nor will I be doing eyefinity so if there isn't alot of upgrades in features to the new series I may stick with the old lot.

Depending on performance, pricing and TDP I could be swayed etheir way, At the moment however I think I'll be going for a MSi hawk/Asus DirectCU/HIS OC? maybe

Can't wait for nov.

dose any one know if this card is going to be 40nm or the next step down? If they are going to release the card as a lower powered card then could that mean that they are shrinking the die to 30nm or so?

Wish I could have waited before I got the 5870 but my other card the 4850 was starting to die and I wanted DX 11

can't wait to see the benchmarks in october and november

same architecture, smaller die process or some process improvement, much like the gf104 and the 4890/4770.

not to be confused with the term rebadge by nvidia. where the very same chip gets a brand new sticker on top of it (example: 8800gs -> 9600gso, 9800gtx+ -> gts250) and marketed as new.

someone put up leaked benches a while ago. As many people expected it had about a 25-30% increase in performance across the board, which considering its still 40nm isnt bad. That would put the 6870 above the gtx 480 in performance. Hopefully the tesselation will be improved on the 6xxx series. But until we get 100% legit benches who knows. I'd buy a 6870 or two for xfire if they do have a 30% perf increase over the 5870, to replace my gtx 295. However i am saving for bulldozer and a new mobo, and im not sitting on a bank

I'm hoping for some serious improvements in crossfire scaling. The GTX 4xx series has such good scaling that it makes it hard for me to look elsewhere since I don't upgrade regularly so a dual card setup is likely to happen at some point.

I want to see at least a little more performance, better tessellation, and better crossfire scaling

Depends on what you consider significant. So far it seems like it'll be a good 20-30% across the board, which is definitely important, it's just not the HUGE MAJOR MUST-HAVE like a new gen. often is. And Crossfire scaling is close to SLI, and very good (esp. if you consider where SLI/CF were just a few years ago.)

I'm looking at a 6850, Comparable to a 5870 at stock I expect, but with a new feature-set, I will then possibly? Overclock, although I don't think it will be necessary

I've corrected my comment, I meant a 6850. However depending upon pricing I may be swayed to buy a 5870 when the price drop comes, I'm not too certain, Either way its a massive upgrade from my 9800GT, but atleast with a 6850 it has newer features and I get bragging rights

Yes, there's expected to be a 6970 and 6950, The 6950 isn't expected to be released until the 6970 actually gets competition however (this is the same case as the 5xxx series but seeing as theres no competition for the 5970 theres no need to release a 5950)

The 6970 is effectively going to be 2x 5870's on a single PCB according to what I've heard.

Yes, as we all hope.
However the current benchmarks released (assumed 5870) suggest a 25~30% increase of performance at stock(assumed again)

But for all we know it could be a 5850 benchmark? that would be awesome!

Nvidia are staring down a barrel if this is true.

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

Whats happening in a few days?

If those benches are real, its not a dual card, they arent the first cards out, they always come later

Some other leaks show it being ATLEAST 33% faster than the 5870...up to 20% faster than the 480.

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=26184



Possible 6870? Seems within reason. Interestingly enough, the memory bandwidth is actually a greater increase over the 5870, than the 5870 was over the 4870. 5870 was 153 GB/s, 4870 was 115 GB/s. This shows this possible 6870 at over 200 GB/s, for a 33% increase over the 5870. This is within the realm of reason, however id believe maybe 25% more easily. If its true though, very promising for AMD. For those who failed in math, 4870 to 5870 was 30% increase. Might be a fake, but who knows.

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• 6870 Benchmark?

Nothing can be decided till the final card is released into the market. Wait till guru3d and AnandTech review it.

If those leaked benchmarks are right, the 6000 series will rock. Once again, Nvidia is in serious trouble. I just bought a 5850 three months ago, so I will probably pass on the 6000 cards. The 5850 should be good for another year or two.

Maybe they stepped up a gear seeing that how GTX460 is eating into the market.

True, but Nvidia won't get their next round of cards out until mid-2011. Meanwhile, ATI will be selling their 6000 cards like hot cakes. The same thing happend last year, with the 5000 series. If Nvidia doesn't pick up the pace, they will be on the losing end of this battle for years to come.

I read somewhere that some alleged benchmarks of ATI's Radeon HD 6870 show that is it actually faster than the HD 5970!

I find this hard to believe. Mainly because as far as to my knowledge, no testable Northern Island prototype exists yet. Whatever HD 6870 benchmark, assuming it's not fake, was probably the 40nm "Southern Island".

Maybe Two HD 6970's in CrossfireX can run Crysis on 2560x1600 with 8x AA and all the other graphics settings cranked as high as they can go, and we'll have 75+ FPS.

Got the benchmark link?

Oh and you spelt Metro 2033 with a 'C', 'r', 'y','s','i', and another 's'.

Just a joke man although some may argue that metro looks better than Crysis as its a matter of opinion. I think they both look great in there own way, and I would also say they are both badly coded.

Personally I think BFBC2 on Max looks very similar to Crysis on Max, though the frame rates are completely different.