Slide shows HD6700 specifications

A presentation slide popped up showing the full specs of the HD6700 series and as it looks the HD6770 might end up between the HD5850 and the HD5870 performance wise. Looks like Barts will utilize 4D SIMD units a instead 5D SIMDs and lower number of texture units compared to Cypress, so it should be a smaller die meaning power consumption should be somewhat lower and it’ll be also cheaper to manufacture. Rumors say that the HD6700 series is targeted directly against nVIDIA’s GTX460 cards meaning prices shouldn’t be much higher, HD5870 performance around 200 bucks? Sounds good to me.

Update: With the full slide we’ve got some power consumption figures, the HD6700 Series consumes about 40W less then the HD5800 series under load, the TDP of the HD6770 is 146W while the HD6750s is a very modest 114W just a few above the HD5770s 108W.

Updated with full image from Chiphell.

Mysterious Galaxy GeForce GTX460 pops up.

Expreview has posted some interesting pictures of a non-reference GTX460 PCB design done by Galaxy. The PCB is the same length as a GTX480, and features 8 – GDDR5 memory chips totaling 2GB of VRAM, or so they claim. The card sports a 4-phase GPU and a 2-phase memory power design, and it being powered with one 8-pin and one 6-pin power connector. Also there is that mysterious connector near the PCIe connector at the bottom of the PCB… and its function is sadly unkown at this point. Maybe it’ll nest a second MXM based GPU for PhysX purposes perhaps a GF108 (GT400M)? Or we see one half of a dual-PCB GTX460 X2 design? Who knows, but we’ll keep you updated if anything new comes by.

Review roundup 09/24

Today’s list so far:

• ASUS GeForce GTX460 TOP @ Björn3D
• KFA2 GeForce GTX480 LTD  OC Anarchy @ Guru3D
• GeForce GTS450 Roundup @ FiringSquad

KFA2 announces GeForce GTX480 LTD OC Anarchy

Galaxy’s subsidiary KFA2 has announced a limited edition GeForce GTX480 dubbed “Anarchy”. The card is based on Galaxy’s own PCB design and it comes overclocked out of the box with the clocks set to 760/1520/3800MHz (GPU/Shader/Memory), other specs like the amount of memory (1536MB) and the width of the memory interface (384-bit) are unchanged. Duty of keeping the card cool however is trusted to an Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME Plus GPU-cooler which is quite a big step up in cooling capacity compared to the reference offering. On the connectivity side it has two DVIs and one HDMI output.

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Review roundup – 09/22

Today’s reviews:

• ASUS Radeon HD5870 Matrix @ X-bit Labs
• ECS GeForce GTX460 Black Series @ Hardware Secrets
• Galaxy GeForce GTX480 Super OC @ TweakTown.
• GigaByte GeForce GTX470 SOC @ Björn3D
• GigaByte GeForce GTX470 SOC @ HardwareCanucks
• HIS Radeon HD5570 LP @ Tweaknews
• Palit GeForce GTS450 Sonic Platinum @ PureOC
• Palit GeForce GTX460 Sonic Platinum @X-bit Labs
• XFX Radeon HD5750 XXX, eVGA GeForce GTS450, PowerColor HD5750 LP @ KitGuru