AMD Announces Radeon HD 6900 Series of Video Cards – 6850, 6970, 6990
AMD held their financial analyst day yesterday and when we were going through the slides we noticed that they have officially announced that the Radeon HD 6900 series of video cards does exist. From what we can gather on the internet, AMD plans to launch the Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 together on November 29th. These cards have been known as ‘Cayman’ up till know. The dual-GPU solution is going to be called the Radeon HD 6990 and that card will come last. Rumor has it that the Radeon HD 6990 (aka Antilles) comes later and best estimates are Q1 2011. The Radeon HD 6990 is made up of two Cayman GPU’s and should be AMD’s flagship GPU for much of 2011 if not all of it.
We managed to get some specs of the soon-to-launch, well at least on paper, AMD Radeon HD 6970 card. What we can share with you is that Cayman packs 1536 stream processors, 32ROPs, 96 Texture units and 2GB of GDDR5 memory. We, the hard working people of Fudzilla, also have learned that the card comes with two DVI ports, 2 mini Display ports and HDMI, which is much better than what Nvidia’s GTX 580 can offer. TDP looks to be slightly lower than GTX 580s but in worst case it looks to go up to the sky, something that weve seen with GTX 480 and almost 300W TDP in Furmark. Stay tuned, more specs will follow as soon as we can confirm them.
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