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AMD's New Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 Cards Debut

Posted by timothy on from the when-last-month's-card-just-won't-do dept.

MojoKid writes "AMD has officially launched their new Radeon HD 6800 series of graphics cards and the company has managed to drive cost and power consumption out of the product, while increasing performance efficiencies in the architecture. The Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 are new midrange cards that offer similar performance to previous generation high-end offerings, but at significantly lower price points and with an enhanced tessellation engine for better support of next generation DX11 game engines. The cards compete well with NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 and 460 products, besting them in some scenarios but trailing in others. Word is AMD is readying their flagship high-end Radeon 6900 family for release in Q4 as well."

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  1. Oh wow! New graphics cards! by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait to see these things in the store! Graphics cards are so cool. You can of course play graphics on them, but you can also do cool stuff like encryption and supercomputer type of stuff.

    Man, I can't get enough of these graphics cards stories! Oh yeah!

    1. Re:Oh wow! New graphics cards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Not everyone just gets their kicks out of drooling after graphics cards.

      What is this, I don't even.

      We're on /.

      This is a place full of geeks and nerds who *should* be slobbering over the most nonsensical bits of hardware that shows up. Saying "Meh, it's just a graphics card" is going against the very essence of /.

      Would you go to a car expo and go "Meh a Ferrari. My Nissan Cube gets me places fine so I don't need that."

      Also FUCK the Cube. That car looks horrible.

    2. Re:Oh wow! New graphics cards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Microsoft has already updated beyond any need as can be demonstrated by nearly everyone's reluctance to go beyond Windows XP. MS Office demonstrates the same point.

      So then are you saying that you are satisfied with Microsoft's products? To quote a commercial I saw recently: "Really?"

    3. Re:Oh wow! New graphics cards! by dimeglio · · Score: 5, Funny

      So you don't buy games, don't use high-end graphic cards and don't particularly see the benefits of improved performance and lower power consumption (and cost), yet admire the engineering. Congratulations, you're now an adult.

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    4. Re:Oh wow! New graphics cards! by antifoidulus · · Score: 2, Funny

      I dunno, the ./ crowd seems to follow me wherever I go. It's almost like they represent my current location.

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  2. Re:Driven Out Costs? by Neil+Boekend · · Score: 2, Funny

    And they have driven out power consumption! These must be great in netbooks and the sort!

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