ATI Radeon 6000 seriers rumor to be released in october

[blackpanther26]

http://vr-zone.com/articles/-rumour...schedule-first-iteration-in-october/9688.html

Popular Turkish website Donanimhaber has released an expected schedule for the release of ATI's Radeon HD 6000 series. The first HD 6000 GPU to be released will be the Radeon HD 6700 series, codenamed Barts. The HD 6700 is scheduled for a release as early as October. As suggested by the nomenclature, the HD 6700 will directly replace the HD 5700 series.

The HD 6700 release will be followed up by Cayman in November, expected to be branded as the ATI Radeon HD 6800 series, replacing the current HD 5800 series.

The flagship will be Antilles, and branded as the ATI Radeon HD 6970. Antilles, as expected, will be a dual-GPU Cayman. While the HD 5970 lowers clock speeds from the HD 5870, HD 6970 is expected to feature the same clock speeds as the HD 6870 - basically a HD 6870 in CF. This will be much like the HD 4870 X2. The Radeon HD 6970 is scheduled for December.

 

[ares1214]

Thats all well and good and all, if a bit exagerated on the rounding, but the difference is, AMD is rolling its cards out in a month or less. Nvidia is........well not basically. Also, we have no leaks, proof, confirmation, or anything pointing to Nvidia doing anything. All we know is ultra low end comes out around 6xxx, in the GT430. Although, this makes your point stronger in a way, i have noticed, or maybe im wrong, that Fermi isnt really scaling linearly. The 460 was way above competition, take some things out, 450 was on par, or below competition, so stripping it down all the way to GF108, then id imagine that will lose to AMD low end. On the flip side, that also means full unlocked GF104 might be better than we suspect. Still, even if it was released tommorow, i dont think it could stand up to 35% performance increase on the AMD side.

 

[notty22]

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing-components/graphics-cards/amd-to-release-next-gen-graphics-pre-christmas-717388?src=rss&attr=newsall

Interesting. From a AMD rep, nothing about Oct or Nov. in there

 

[ares1214]

Have you ever said anything pro AMD? Nope...Anyway, it also says just about nothing about a release date. It said before christmas. Is October and November before Christmas? Yes. This means they are ahead of schedule actually, as they said before high end in Q1 2011...

 

[Mousemonkey]

Have you ever said anything pro AMD?

Well it balances you not saying anything pro Nvidia then doesn't it? :lol:

 

[ares1214]

Not quite. For a while, the only card id recommend was the 460. Im not anti Nvidia, i just know that they are down now, and dont show any signs of getting back up in the near future. Thats not anti Nvidia, thats just the truth. :lol:

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Dont be messin with them cuda cores

 

[notty22]

Not quite. For a while, the only card id recommend was the 460. Im not anti Nvidia, i just know that they are down now, and dont show any signs of getting back up in the near future. Thats not anti Nvidia, thats just the truth. :lol:

ROFL, your recent track records with your am3 predictions would show otherwise, but keep making em, its pretty funny.

 

[ambam]

Probably the SI, I heard a rumor that the ATI Radeon HD 6970 is due for release in December of 2010.

Although the SI are likely to be pushed to early-2011, while the NI are set closer to 2012.

 

[ares1214]

ROFL, your recent track records with your am3 predictions would show otherwise, but keep making em, its pretty funny.

How is this a predicition? AMD is releasing a new series within a few months, likely as little as 1, Nvidia isnt...that much is pretty obvious.

 

[Mousemonkey]

This next topics has been merged by Mousemonkey
■ HD 6970 due for December 2010 release?

 

[Tamz_msc]

AMD might have the hardware, but it still lacks in the driver department, while NVIDIA has been improving their drivers continuously ever since Fermi was released.Driver compatibility and stability is of paramount importance to me and that is why my next card will be NVIDIA.

 

[Mousemonkey]

AMD might have the hardware, but it still lacks in the driver department, while NVIDIA has been improving their drivers continuously ever since Fermi was released.Driver compatibility and stability is of paramount importance to me and that is why my next card will be NVIDIA.

That's been my stance for quite some time now but I always get slagged off for it. :lol:

 

[AMW1011]

Well MM, when I stop having problems with my nVidia drivers I'll b^tch about ATIs. :lol:

 

[Mousemonkey]

Well MM, when I stop having problems with my nVidia drivers I'll b^tch about ATIs. :lol:

Your having problems with Nv drivers?

 

[Tamz_msc]

Me and my friends have owned NVIDIA cards only for something like 6-7 years.The list includes fx 5200, 6200, 6600 GT, 7300 GT, 7950 GX2, 8400 GS, 8600 GT, 8800 GT, 9500 GT, 9600 GT and the GTX 260.But that doesn't mean that we are fanboys.We have NEVER had any problem with NVIDIA drivers till date.

 

[sparkle_ftw]

I have never once had a problem with video card drivers nvidia or ati.

I bought a 4000 series card because ati was smart with ddr5 and nvidia was stupid with 512bit ddr3.

The Green Team finally switched to amd's style of card making and now I like their cards again. Well, I like the 470 and 460...

I hate that eyefinity needs an active minidisplay port adapter.

I don't care about physx or cuda, only feature that nvidia really has that amd doesn't is sli. (gamer's perspective)


^sorry for the rant, had to spew my thoughts

 

[mactronix]

What I want to know is how Nvidia can be down/behind when its rumoured the next ATI cards will be using a simplified version of the arch. Isnt that what Nvidia just did with the GF104 ?


Mactronix

 

[ares1214]

What I want to know is how Nvidia can be down/behind when its rumoured the next ATI cards will be using a simplified version of the arch. Isnt that what Nvidia just did with the GF104 ?


Mactronix

Simpler isnt always slower for one, and where do you see this?

 

[ares1214]

And yeah, AMD drivers can be crap, but i just dont upgrade unless i know its good, and i need to. Otherwise, i keep the last stable version. They should take their time more with them. Isnt there open source drivers for them though?

 

[jyjjy]

I hate that eyefinity needs an active minidisplay port adapter.

Requiring displayport was pretty obnoxious but at least they have finally released active adapters that are more reasonably priced($25-30.)

 

[mactronix]

Simpler isnt always slower for one, and where do you see this?

Well you told us about the 2+2 arangement ATI as rumoured to be using which is a simplified and tweaked version of the 5 series 4+1 arangement and notty linked us to an article about it. Its very similar to how Nvidia have simplified the GF104 core compared to the GF 100 core.

Mactronix

 

[dalta centauri]

Serious issues with CCC 10.9, I hope drivers are released ebtter in the future, I'd rather have a solid driver release every 3 months then a poor one every month where they need to release hot fix's after a week or two.

 

[sparkle_ftw]

Requiring displayport was pretty obnoxious but at least they have finally released active adapters that are more reasonably priced($25-30.)

Oh that is good news.
Catalyst 10.9 works great for me

 

[Mousemonkey]

Requiring displayport was pretty obnoxious but at least they have finally released active adapters that are more reasonably priced($25-30.)

I wonder how people who spent lots of money on DP adapters earlier this year and late last year feel about that? :lol:

 

[AMW1011]

Your having problems with Nv drivers?

Decreased performance in semi-modern games, completely unplayable in some lesser known classics, still having SLI problems with Oblivion since over a year ago, one of my favorite games still is unplayable in SLI, which it was since release. Oh and BFBC2's performance seems to fluctuate drastically with each release.

Nothing major, but my friend with his old 3870 X2 has never seen things go backwards in older games, nor does he share any of my problems. Not that I am blind to the fact that every driver release since 10.4 has had issues from the red team.

All in all, I just deal with it. Life goes on.

How are those 8800 GTs holding up MM? I'm still loving my dual 8800 GTS 512ms, though BOTH of my original EVGA cards failed and now I'm rocking two XFX versions. I do wonder about that...