Some Initial (and mostly unsubstantiated) Thoughts on AMD's upcoming HD 6800 Cards

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One of our PC Perspective editors, Josh Walrath, is taking a stab at

all the recent Radeon HD 6800-series rumors. The past several weeks

have seen quite a few leaks about the HD 6870 and HD 6850 cards, and

they look to be interesting beasts. These products are part of the

“Northern Islands” family, and the first iteration we will see are the

“Barts” brothers. These will comprise the Barts XT (HD 6870) and the

Barts Pro (HD 6850).

 

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Quote: "AMD appears to have changed around all the “uncore” aspects of

the GPU, but have left the overall functionality of the thread

processors intact. There are still 320 of these processors, but once

we figure in the 4 stream units vs. the older 5 units, we see that

stream count has fallen from 1600 to 1280. What makes this

interesting is that the performance of the HD 6870 is very close to

that of the older HD 5870 (though still slightly slower as shown in

leaked benchmarks)."

 

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Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

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