Amd Radeon Hd 6900 Series Price

Arriving as rumoured on the 15th of Dec, the AMD Radeon HD 6900 series has landed with the Hard disk drive 6970 ($369) and HD 6950 ($299), replacing its previous generation of high-end performance GPUs – the HD 5800 series.

The lineup as it stands

Congenital on the Southern Islands 40nm Cayman GPU, the Hard disk 6970 and Hard disk 6950 are two of the three top-stop AMD Radeon GPU cards appear in the Hd 6900 series, with the dual Cayman GPU HD 6990 expected to launch in January 2011. With the launch, the Hard disk 6970 volition become AMD's flagship single-GPU card for now, ousting the Hard disk drive 5870 (though that will still be available on shelves for a while). In terms of pricing ($369) yet, it falls in betwixt the already-crumbling-Fermi GTX 480 ($410) and the new-and-improved-Fermi powerhouse GTX 570 ($350). Still stuck on the 40nm process after having to carelessness the 32nm TSMC node, AMD knows it can't compete with the GTX 580 on the level playing field of a single GPU, and for now, the dual GPU Hd 5970 remains its aging performance flagship. The dual-GPU Antilles Hd 6990 will supervene upon the HD 5970 soon enough, but until the Northern Islands and the 28nm GPUs come up out (and Nvidia with its own 28nm GPUs – including the GTX 680), it looks similar AMD will have to bow to the GTX 580 in single-GPU performance for a while. Reviewers across the web are calling the Hard disk drive 6900 series a serious refresh over the previous generation, with some going so far as to say it has the most architectural and characteristic improvements in one generation since AMD ATI introduced its start DX10 GPU, the HD 2900.

GPU Model	AMD Radeon HD 6970	AMD Radeon Hd 6950	AMD Radeon HD 6870	AMD Radeon HD 6850	AMD Radeon HD 5870
Stream Processors	1536	1408	1120	960	1600
Texture Units	96	88	56	48	lxxx
ROPs	32	32	32	32	32
Core Clock	880MHz	800MHz	900MHz	775MHz	850MHz
Memory Clock	1.375GHz (5.5GHz effective) GDDR5	1.25GHz (5.0GHz constructive) GDDR5	ane.05GHz (4.2GHz effective) GDDR5	1GHz (4GHz effective) GDDR5	i.2GHz (iv.8GHz effective) GDDR5
Retentivity Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-fleck	256-chip
Frame Buffer	2GB	2GB	1GB	1GB	1GB
FP64	40269	40269	Northward/A	N/A	40299
Transistor Count	two.64B	2.64B	1.7B	i.7B	2.15B
Process	TSMC 40nm	TSMC 40nm	TSMC 40nm	TSMC 40nm	TSMC 40nm
Price Point	$369	$299	$239	$179	~$349

New features over HD 5800 and Hard disk 6800 series:

• Morphological and Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing – While morphological anti-aliasing was introduced in the HD 6800 series and Catalyst 10.x drivers, AMD has at present brought its equivalent of Nvidia's multi-sample anti-aliasing to the HD 6900 series
• Dual Graphics Engines and 8th generation tessellator – AMD has divided work between 2 graphics engines by design to let for upward to ii primitives and 32 pixels per clock per cycle, and its new latest/fastest tesselator promises up to ii.9X tessellation functioning from the previous generation
• VLIW4 compages – Switching from VLIW5, the new space-conserving and efficient design allows for more than SPUs (with fewer SPs per SIMD) to be squeezed into a single die, improving performance. The 4-way co-effect allows for better utilization than VLIW5 design, resulting in 10%comeback  in performance
• PowerTune – User defined core clock management for performance-priority ability efficiency, giving users to ability to define a maximum ability depict
• Asynchronous acceleration – Catching up with Nvidia'southward multiple kernel execution, AMD goes i upwardly past assuasive contained threads/applications to issue parallel-executed kernels, much improving DirectCompute and OpenCL performance
• Better OpenGL and OpenCL support
• HDMI 1.4a and DisplayPort 1.two support
• 2GB GDDR5 RAM – More than "off-chip buffer" to handle what the cache admission RAM can't
• Improved Local Information Store fetching and new dual bidirectional DMA engine – Improving memory and caching performance
• New render dorsum-ends - Increase write operations, giving twice the speed of 16-bit integer operations,  and four times the speed of 32-bit floating point operations
• BIOS toggle switch - Allows user to return BIOS changes to default straight
• Unified Video Decoder iii (UVD3) - Dedicated video playback accelerator to improve Hd/online/Blu-ray video decoding operation, including post-processing and colour correction

Everything put together, AMD's Cayman looks to be a well-idea design that is readier to take on the hereafter of gaming, tessellation, direct computing, ray-tracing, and hardware encoding than the previous generation, while maintaining ability efficiency. The HD 6970 compares well against the GTX 570, matching it as often as losing to it or beating it. The HD 6950 all the same falls in a class of its own, offering tremendous value for money with no existent competitor at its cost betoken apart from the soon to be retired Hard disk drive 5870 itself – making it the better bet of the two Cayman cards.

The only reaction from Nvidia the introduction of these into the market place cards might bring is a drop in the GTX 570'due south price or the development of a GTX 565, simply for now, Nvidia probably doesn't have anything to worry about, and won't even after the introduction of the dual-GPU HD 6990.

[RELATED_ARTICLE]Many of the new technologies and features, such every bit the switch from VLIW5 to VLIW4, the integration of Enhanced Quality Anti-Aliasing (finally an AMD multi-sample anti-aliasing equivalent), and asynchronous acceleration definitely prove remarkable improvements in performance from the previous generation, which when included with other architectural changes put the HD 6900 series a fair chip ahead of the Hd 5800 series. They too look like they will be included in the Northern Isle GPUs series.

For now, even if you are looking to play the latest games - unless your hardware is really outdated - we'd recommend waiting it out for the Northern Islands GPUs, or grabbing a HD 5870 or GTX 460 at their reduced prices. The improvements from the Hard disk drive 5800 serial to the Hard disk drive 6900 series are pronounced and definitely more than hereafter proof, simply do non seem to be worth an upgrade at this point. Those looking to upgrade from lower-ends of the marketplace however, would notice the Hard disk drive 6950 or Hard disk drive 6850 to be great blindside for your buck at their price points, with the Hard disk 6970 too evenly matched with the GTX 570 to brand information technology very desirable.

The Hard disk 6900 series' great compute performance of course must be mentioned, with the Cayman's improved DirectCompute/OpenGL/OpenCL support, asynchronous acceleration and enhanced ray-tracing making it a practiced choice for workstations. The latest Cayman-based FirePro cards are being readied, and will make it an interesting fight at the professional level.

Cheque out some benchmarks over at AnandTech to become a good idea of the Hd 6900 series functioning compared to the GTX 5XX/4XX series, including CrossFire and SLI scaling.

Amd Radeon Hd 6900 Series Price,

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