[DrNip]

Radeon HD 6970 "Antilles" launches in December
Graphics | 2010/08/26 11:51 | Anton Karmehed

AMD recently revealed bits on its coming graphics architecture and after some digging we found information about what circuits will appear in 2010, and that includes Antilles sporting dual GPUs; to be known as Radeon HD 6970.
According to reliable sources, the Radeon HD 6000 family will consist of three different series; Antilles, Caymen and Barts. Where the last one will be the first one out.

Barts will replace AMD Juniper in the mid-range segment and most likely be named Radeon HD 6700 series. The launch is scheduled for October 2010. The code-name most likely comes from Saint-Barthélemy (Saint Barts), which is a Frech island in the Caribbean. On a side note, Saint Barts was a Swedish colony between 1784-1878, which can be seen on the island shield with its three crowns.

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The West Indies have given names to several of AMD's new circuits

Caymen will replace Cypress and take over in the performance segment from Radeon HD 5870, 5850 and 5830. Exactly what models that will launch is uncertain, but the cards are expected to reach stores in November 2010 in the form of the Radeon HD 6800 series. Catalyst 10.8 lists 14 different Cayman models (more on that later). The GL models are a bit illusive at the moment, but could very well just be the FireGL versions of AMD's professional family. The Cayman Islands can also be found in the Caribbean, Weest Indies and have been named after the native tounge for alligator (caiman).

Antilles sports graphics circuits of the Caymen series, but as the successor to Hemlock it uses two of these with each card. This dual-GPU card looks to launch in two versions, like much Radeon HD 4850 X2 and 4870 X2. If there is any room for the entry level model of Antilles is hard to say, but in December 2010 we can expect the first Antilles models in stores. Antilles is named after the islands with the same name, a group of islands divided into two groups; Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles.

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AMD to use dual graphics circuits with Radeon HD 6000 family

AMD Radeon HD 6970 will probably be the name of the top model of the series and should launch in December.
We still fairly little about the changes made to the architecture since Evergreen, but from what it looks like AMD has plcaed itself in top of NVIDIA Fermi, but also lowered energy consumption.

We hope to offer more details soon, not the least more on the mid-range and entry level cards that are slated to appear early next year.

SOURCE:

http://www.nordichardware.com/news/7...-december.html

[DrNip]

[Exclusive] "Bart's" comes as the first offshoot of the new graphics card series

The new graphics card generation, the direct successor of the current HD5000er series, is due out later this year, in this regard we have received new information from an industry-related source. So shall have already come in the middle of next October, the first offshoot of the new HD6000er series and the code name "bear Barts.

The small branch is located in view of the performance between a current HD5770 and HD5870. In addition comes an eight-layer PCBs, 1GB GDDR5 memory with 5Gbps and 2x6pin power connectors are used. The TDP of the new pixel accelerator should be slightly higher than 150W and when connections are 2xDVI, HDMI, 2xMini-DP, with the support of Eyefinity 4, available. Moreover, the chip of the "beard" Pinkomaptibel with PCB is the HD5800, which will reduce production costs significantly. The above specifications refer to "Barts XT.

For more information we receive relate to the GPU "Cayman", which is October to appear in November. This information confirmed our of 16 July this year. This GPU is a 10-layer PCBs and large 1GB GDDR5 memory with 6Gbps have. The graphics card needs to power a 6pin and 8pin power connector, the TDP comes to less than 300W. The connections are 2xDVI, HDMI, and 2xMini-DP.

Also the code name for the upcoming dual-graphics card of the new generation is already known to us. This carries the code name "Antilles" and will be AMD's new spearhead. We keep you informed.

SOURCE:

http://news.ati-forum.de/index.php/n...fikkartenserie

[Kal-EL]

wallet jumps outa pocket and hides under the sofa,

[GFDuke]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

wallet jumps outa pocket and hides under the sofa,

Im with you on that.

[HITandRUN]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

wallet jumps outa pocket and hides under the sofa,

You think!

[Witchdoctor]

And the sad reality is, we will all have one sooner or later .....

Might as well head over to the 12 step program thread now and avoid the Christmas rush ..........

[DrNip]

I started putting a lil cash away this week for one by new years.

[Witchdoctor]

Is that the Newegg Layaway plan ?

Here anything on the price of admision for a 6870 ?

[DrNip]

No that's the stuff it somewhere my wife doesn't know about it plan! Dunno how much they will be. I pray $400.

[Witchdoctor]

I heard that bro ..........

if it does take the speed crown $ 400 may be wishful thinking ....