Originally posted by Qaridarium
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Full photo gallery of HD68X0-graphics cards: http://plaza.fi/muropaketti/salassap...6870#kommentit
From Finnish HW-website AMD will release new HD6850-cards on Friday!
ps. Sry bad english
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Originally posted by Qaridariumback in 1998 amd ad SIMD 3dnow unit... intel don't get the 3dnow no they do there own SIMD unit called SSE and go on the market 1 year later
now amd drop 3dnow and payes money to inte for SSE
same on the GPU market the r600 architecture was 5D awesome and nvidia shot the market down with an crappy 1D architecture.
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Originally posted by gbeauche View PostI am not sure the NVIDIA architecture is fully scalar. Some recent patents mention SIMD. Anyway, nobody can really be sure.Test signature
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OK, I saw the press release go out so I *guess* we've officially launched...
The 6850/6870 *are* 5-wide VLIW just like the previous generations. Not a fake AFAIK.
Oh good, the first review is up : http://www.hexus.net/content/item.ph...=27053&page=18Test signature
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I guess it depends on what the numbers are supposed to mean. Some people think *8** means "our fastest single chip board" in which case I agree *7** could have been more appropriate. Other people think *8** implies a certain market segment or performance level, in which case the numbering is correct but we are now providing a significantly lower price point than before.
What the heck, it gives people something to argue aboutTest signature
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Originally posted by Kano View PostThat review does not really look impressive, i would say the numbering is wrong, maybe 6770 instead of 6870 would be better...
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no,no you didn't get my point at all, I am impressed guessing that AMD is making a lot of money, I am not really impressed if current 6850, 6870 performs much better or is more cheap to the final user.
I am guessing that developing costs are very low due to the fact that HD6000 chip is nearly an evergreen chip. Plus the die size is smaller, this implies that productions cost is reduced.
HD6870 has 255mm2 die size and AMD are selling at the same price of an GTX 470 which has a die size of 529mm2.
AMD is winning in production costs, so they can reduce prices if nvidia tries to sell cheap fermis. AMD is winning on performance too, the chip is more efficient so has room to use more watts, AMD HD6000 top class cards will outperform fermis top class cards.
AMD is playing with nvidia, setting their cards to be only a little more performance / $ vs nvidia cards (they clearly seem to have room for more), and nvidia cannot play, it is owned, their die size and power consuption is at max.
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