AMD's New Radeon HD 6870 and 6850 Cards Debut

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 21, 2010 @05:52PM 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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Re:Power consumption and Gbps vs GB/s by XDirtypunkX · 2010-10-21 20:18 · Score: 4, Informative

That's 4Gbps per bus line, apparently. The card has a 256bit bus, which works out at exactly 128GB/s.
Re:Oh wow! New graphics cards! by Pojut · 2010-10-21 23:43 · Score: 4, Informative

From what I read at [H]ard|OCP today, the 6850 is an upgrade for a 5830 and below, while a 6870 is an upgrade for a 5850 and below.
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