I’m not trying to say the fresh off the line AMD 6850 and 6870 are “poor”. But the honest to goodness truth is that those are mere “mid-range” cards. The real shiny jewel of glory is the 6970. This is the card that is destined to replace the current top of the line, single-GPU 5870. On that note, a Chinese site by the name of zol.com claims to have some early 6970 hardware in-house, with preliminary benchmarks already completed. 3D Mark:...
Having every graphics card from 1995-2010 color coded, listed in chronological order, and ‘splayed alongside relevant games of the year is pretty much the coolest, nerdiest thing ever. But not only is it interesting to the more mature readers there (who remember way, way back into 1995, newcomers can appreciate the humble origins of ’95 too. The picture above is obviously severly downsized. If you want to see the full 14,000 pixel-wide gigantor image showing...
Hmmm, fresh, shiny graphics cards. The 68xx-series is hardly a surprise. We’ve known about them and seen them several times before already. Alienbabeltech has gotten their hands on a slew of review units and is currently putting them through their paces. Once the embargo is lifted, we’ll finally get to see what AMD’s been hard at work on over the last year. Speaking of which, these are the first GPU’s from AMD’s ATI brand that will feature...
If you’re holding out for one of AMD’s upcoming 68xx series cards, you may want to hold off just a bit longer. Chinese site XFastest.com claims to have the hardware in-house, meaning benchmarks are readily available. I’m sad to announce that initially, performance is pretty underwhelming — the high-end 6870 is 10% less powerful than the outgoing 5870 according to 3d Mark ’06: ATI 5830: 14014 AMD 6850: 14872 ATI 5850: 15593 AMD 6870:...
Not more than a month ago we saw some early shots that claimed to be the upcoming AMD 6870. Even before that however, leaked screenshots of some early AMD 6870 benchmarks moistened our whistles, preparing us for the visual candy that was to follow a couple of days later. Building on that are some new leaked images of the “official” AMD 6870 that show largely the same picture we saw not more than a month ago. Although, this time the cards a tad darker in...
