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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 & 6870 is Come

Later this week we bombed the manufacturers with a lot of press releases announcing new graphical models based on latest graphics AMD chip. But, if you can not wait for that day to catch a glimpse of what will be, Donanim Haber gives us an exciting picture of the graph Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 and the Sapphire Radeon HD 6870.

The Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 has 960 stream processors, a GPU to 40nm Barts 775MHz, 1GB GDDR5 memory at 4000 MHz with 256-bit interface, refrigerator with at least a burly copper heat pipe, a PCIe power connector 6 pin dual DVI output, one HDMI and Display Port. In contrast, Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 has 1120 stream processors, a GPU to 900 MHz, 1GB of GDDR5 memory to 4200 MHz with 256-bit interface, two PCIe power connectors 6-pin, and provides the same outputs that his little sister.

AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series

AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series: Possible models

In exactly 2 weeks before the launch of the GPU Radeon HD 6000 Series AMD (Northern Islands) still know very little about these new GPU. Bright Side Of News From we get a few more details to come to clarify the new nomenclature of the expected 2nd generation of AMD's DirectX 11 graphics.

Theo Valicha claims to have contacted a number of AMD partners, which they confirmed that the GPU Barts (range medium-high) would go on sale as Radeon HD 6800 Series (Radeon HD 6870 and 6850) and that these new GPU would have a performance slightly below the current high range (Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 respectively). The change in nomenclature corresponds to the IGP integrated into the family of microprocessors Fusion will also be part of the family Radeon HD 6000 Series, and probably occupy the Series HD 6400 and below.

Gathering information from Bright Side of News, and combining it with information from the Northern Islands nuclei confirmed, we have prepared a table with any Radeon HD 6000 Series to see in the coming weeks: