AMD Readying Radeon HD 6790 for April 5?
A combatant for the Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti?
Nordic Hardware has a report stating that AMD will be launching a new mid-range graphics part called the Radeon HD 6790, which is supposed to be an answer to Nvidia's just announced GeForce GTX 550 Ti.
The Radeon HD 6790 will be more powerful than a Radeon HD 5770, at a lower price than Radeon HD 6850. According to the report, the 6790 will use a GPU called the Barts LE, which uses AMD's classic VLIW5 architecture with 10 SM units with 800 stream processors. In comparison, the 6850's Barts Pro GPU has 12 SM units and 960 stream processors.
The clock speed is said to be at 840MHz and the memory at 1050MHz (4200MHz effective), all on a 256-bit interface.
ND said that this new card was supposed to launch on March 31, but instead is now launching on April 5.
Your joking right? Outdate me by another generation lol
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/amd-radeon-hd-6000/hd-6670/Pages/amd-radeon-hd-6670-overview.aspx
Surely AMD are not at last going to drop the 5770 to where it should have been priced all along is it?
I'd really like to see such a card with 4770/4830 class performance. I'm surprised we've not had one already.
The 6790 is an interesting prospect... maybe it's time for the 5770 to bow out.
You are on crack dude, the 5770 has been dirt cheap for the longest time now. It can be had for $100 on newegg, which is a great price for that card. Shell out another $100 for xfire 5770's and you have Dx11 performance on the level of a 5870. Not too shabby for $200.
It may have made more sense to offer a 6850 with a 128-bit bus; increasing clocks to compensate for the disabled SM units might alleviate some of the performance drop but increasing power over a more powerful model is a no-no.
£ isn't the same as $. For what its capable of compared to the competition its always been over priced. At release it was too close to the 4870 which was cheaper and after the 460 was released its been a totally irrelevant card full stop.
lol, hey i got a HD4870. Its great but i really want to experience BF3 in high quality.
How did AMD make something less powerful than the 6850 but require significantly more power?
Nothing both camps haven't been doing for years.
Mactronix
haha i'm still rollin a pair of 9800GT's in my computer, talk about ridin' old school
You are beyond wrong. The 5770 has always been a relevant card, before and after the 460 release.
The 4870 didn't support Dx11, and it much larger, hotter, and consumed much more power. Not to mention the 5770's scaled much nicer in crossfire, going toe-to-toe with crossfire 4870's despite being smaller, cooler, and consuming less power.
When the 460 was released, it no was undoubtedly faster. But you had to pay for that performance, as it was $50-60 more than a 5770. When 460's released they went for $220-230, while the 5770's were around the $160-170 mark. Ever since the 5770's price has steadily dropped, all the way to $100 now, offering awesome performance for an affordable price.
The 460's price has dropped too, but a 1gb version is still going to cost you at least $170. Spend $200 and you can crossfire 5770's, which destroy a single 460 for only $30 more.
Now please prove to me how the 5770 is irrelevant? (or ever was for that matter)
Hehe how many missunderstandings are possible in one wall post!? LOL - The guy you are responding to is in the UK! In the UK the prices are different from the US full stop. Here the 5770 is about £100 ($150) - about £5-£10 cheaper than the 460 768 at best. Sometimes its even more expernsive than the 460.
So its not that the 5770 is irrelevant as much as it is that your comment is irrelevant because prices in the US are completely different.
Cheers
So to have a card that squarely addresses the mid-range and gives out such good performance is definately a tempter, especially if the price is aggressive matched to beat the nVidia offerings.