AMD Moves Up New CPU, Graphics Chips for 2010

Finally...yay!

its all about the pricing !!!!

very nice....if 6870 comes out for 400 i will sell my 5870 for half that and double up if performance is good

Its like Christmas in July!

Ahhhhh..... finally intel will have a fight on their hands again, this way we can all see improvements on both sides of the field as the fight for market domination wakens from its slumber

There goes nVidia's hopes of earning some revenues of the GTX 460 down the drain!

wow!!!..6xxx series GPUs???..That would make the price tag on 5xxx series become cheaper. Which means it's time to save money for one!..lol

I also read that nVidia is planning to launch a dual GTX 460 card to reclaim the complete performance crown. Well, they better be quick or after SI launches, their card will probably be creamed by it.

I will definitely wait for the new GPUs and buy the best bang for buck offering, which I hope to be 6850.

I hope this upcoming AMD DX11 integrated GPU is better..because I m fed up with these intel integrated CRAPS !!!!

wonder how many shaders we are looking at in the 6k series...3k was 320, 4k was 800, 5k was 1600

Wow, 6xxx series already? I only bought my 5970 last week!

Holy crap 6xxx already!?? This is what like 1 month after Fermi was released? (my internal clock doesnt function well, so everything is a month away)

look forward to some news on Bulldozer/Zambezi

ok so amd already has a full line of dx11 cards up nvidia is just barely getting their cards out the door, now amd is already putting out a new set of cards... I'm glad nvidia has them beat for volume and battery life on laptops otherwise they might not be doing so well.

Still late in the game of netbooks. Great alternative for Atom

These wont be a true new series. They integrate some of the new features that the "northen-islands" will bring along with some of the traits of the 5000 series. I read that ATI is expecting to get 10-30% performance on the 480 with their new 6000 card. ATI has also confermed that they are going to make a double chip card

I want to see ~HD5750-HD5770 level performance with no power connector needed; for less than $100.

Sounds good and all.. but where are all the games?
All this hardware is great.. but so far i have only seen a few games slated for pc that will push these cards. Seems like more choices in graphics cards than games to play on them.

exciting news, with a die shrink and performance games maybe it'll take the crown from the 460 in my mind in the performance to price ratio... but i'll still be stuck with my 8600gt till i can save more for my new rig, so these might be released just in the nick of time for me to hop on em and be up to date in the pc dept(provided they are a signifigant improvment and thier value lines are released by then)... it happends bi-decadly

I wouldn't expect miracles out of Southern Islands. Only effeciency improvements. The HD5870 was 2 billion transistors on 40nm, and the GTX480 was 3 billion transistors on 40nm. You cannot double up on the HD5870 unless you reduce size to 28nm or increase the die-size and have the fermi problem headaches. Obviously, increasing the effectiveness of Crossfire would be the best solution out of the video card. If they can make it work for all 3D games at near 100% improvement it will be drool-tastic even if it had the same performance numbers as an HD5870.

On the Ontario Processor, I am wondering about the 40nm choice instead of 32nm. Obviously its IGP will be better then anything Intel can muster. I think we have all come to expect better north bridges out out of AMD or nVidia then Intel. Aside from lack of SLI, the 790FX/890FX is a better chipset then the X58.

Intel, AMD (with ATI), and Nvidia. It's almost like a checks and balances system.

So the rumors were true and ATI is rolling out as schedule.. Impressive to say the least.. Its been hardly a year since the 5XXX series launch.. Though i doubt We'll see a 6870 or a 6850 so soon (don't want to underestimate ATI here)..