Oct 22 release Radeon HD6850 & HD6870

Posted Wed, 10/20/2010 - 11:14

Waiting realease date is countdown, AMD guys will facing a big week. they already realease picture of the cards, but the specification still waiting, so make sure you check out what the cards will look like to hold you over until Friday for the official release!

The Radeon HD 6850 is Barts PRO. It features 12 SIMD engines - 960 SP and 48 TMU. It retains the full 32 ROPs and 256-bit memory, but is clocked at 775 MHz. Featuring a single PCIe power connector, the TDP is a reasonable 127W, and idle power is 19W. The HD 6850 is targeted at the GTX 460 768 MB and handily wipes the floor with it with an average improvement of over 30%. Of course, these are AMD's internal testing, and the real world numbers could be different, especially in lower resolutions/IQ where the GTX 460's 768 MB buffer is not a bottleneck. Still, these are huge deltas