AMD Radeon HD 6930 Video Card Coming Out Later This Month
It appears that AMD is preparing to release a new graphics card based on its Cayman Pro Core called the Radeon HD 6930. The AMD Radeon HD 6930 video card would directly compete against NVIDIAs recently released Geforce GTX 560 Ti 448 Core GPU which is available around $300. The Radeon HD6930 would basically be a neutered version of the Radeon HD 6950, but will release at a much lower price. This is exactly what NVIDIA did with the GeForce GTX 560 Ti 448 Core as it is a neutered GeForce GTX 570 for less money. The rumored release date of the Radeon HD 6930 is later this month just before Christmas. The price is rumored to be right around $200 and the performance of card should fall between the Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6950. The translation of the Chinese source isn’t pretty, but you can see it below.
Radeon HD 6930, code-named Cayman CE can be seen as Cayman Pro Radeon HD 6950 version of castration, structure above or VLIW4, but the core is reduced to 1280, Texture Units reduced to 80. Is then castrated two SIMD, but ROPs remains as 32, the same as the 256bit GDDR5, capacity will be 1/2GB. Frequency will be reduced to 750MHz, the memory down to 4800MHz, single-precision and double precision floating point computing power so reduced 1.92TFlops, 480GFlops. Output part of the 2 groups remained DVI, 2 group mini DP, 1 set of HDMI, need group 2 6pin power, estimate the maximum power consumption does not exceed 225W.
Comments are closed.