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Read more.Extra shaders and higher clocks supercharge the Cayman Pro GPU for free.
Thats almost enough to make me want to upgrade now instead of waiting for the 32mn version next year
Been wanting a 6950 for a while now, after seeing this i just dropped the money for one. Will report back when i receive it.
As for the power pin's it seems the extra 2 pins needed on an 8 pin connector is two earth's. So as long as you have a half decent PSU you should be fine.
There will not be a 32nm version. Cayman was originally supposed to be 32nm. The next step will be 28nm and it's probably a year or more away.Originally Posted by dfour
Thats almost enough to make me want to upgrade now instead of waiting for the 32mn version next year
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This is worrying. You can see that AMD owns ATI now ... "what do we do when our competitors have a better line of products than us?" "Just make our mid range products upgrade to our high end products with bios updates". Hope like they don't just surrender the market to nvidia now and give up. Would upset me if they did.
People should check the hardware section more often:
http://forums.hexus.net/graphics-car...le-hd6970.html
How is the worrying? nVidia do have a better line up, but there more expensive (Bang 4 Buck). Your making it sound like they intentionally done this. Cutting off shaders etc is common practice by both parties for lower end cards in a series. There's no way AMD meant to allow this type of upgrade, why would they? There now going to lose a mint from people not bothering with the 6970. I mean why would you? AMD have released BIOS updates before for there cards to give a free upgrade so it's not like this is the first time it's happened. AMD are certainly not "surrendering the market".
The HD6850 1GB and HD6870 1GB basically compete with the GTX460 and GTX470 and yet only have a 255MM2 GPU. The GF104 is over 320MM2 and the GF100 is over 500MM2!
The GTX560 is basically an overclocked GTX460 1GB with all the shaders enabled. It will probably be slightly faster than a GTX470 and hence the HD6870 but still will have a bigger GPU.
The HD6950 and HD6970 compete with the GTX570 and yet have a 389MM2 GPU. The GF110 is 520MM2.
The HD5770 has a smaller GPU than the GTS450 and is still faster.
The GT215 in the GT240 is also larger than the GPU found in the HD5670.
I can see that AMD has a worse line-up than Nvidia!
This is neat but can see AMD locking it down quick as 6970 sales plummet
The only reason that it will take time should be that the 28mn wont be ready to use for a while. I cant really see it being over a year though (I do realise testing chips takes a while).
Might have to strike quick and sell my 5850 before the prices drop to much on them and AMd nerfs the bios upgrade.
Do all the new cards allow voltage tweaking?? Im sure I saw the saphire review said it did and asus and msi will (at a guess). Gonna water cool it so might as well get the most out of it
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