ATI 6870 benchmark leaked? 3D Vantage Score: X11963

Well isn’t this a nice little surprise for a Friday morning — ATI’s upcoming hardware gets the names and benchmark leak. On the naming front, “Cayman, Blackcomb, Barts, Whistler, Onega, Turks, Seymour and Caicos” look to be the tag names for the upcoming Northern Southern Islands hardware. Remember, Southern Islands is going to be a more mild refresh than originally planned because of ATI’s manufacturers skipping ahead to a smaller chip die ahead of ATI’s own schedule.

But if a leaked 3D Vantage benchmark turns out to be legit, Northern Islands and the 6xxx series cards are going to be pretty sweet. Take a gander at the X11963 3D Vantage benchmark. To put that in perspective, an Nvidia GTX 480 gets right around 10,000-ish and an ATI 5870 9000-ish. Clearly, there’s a visible improvement in performance.

For now, however, there isn’t any real weight behind this benchmark save for a few references withing GPU-Z that match up with card numbers in the latest ATI 10.8a driver release. Further adding to the skepticism, the effective GDDR5 memory speed is shown to be 6.4GHz — pretty freakin’ high. Either this card is a beast from the factory, this test sample is overclocked (then why leave core speed at 850?), or it’s fake.

As we all know, Photoshop is quite the tool these days. Many things can be faked. With that said, my fingers are crossed that such performance is indeed a real possibility with the upcoming 6xxx series.

Source:
Engadget
VR-Zone
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Hardware Canucks

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