Report: AMD Launching Radeon HD 6000 Oct. 18

Looking at those numbers, I'm not seeing a huge reason to update my 5770 anytime soon, double width data bus is all I can see, 160 extra stream proc's and a 40+w increase in power consumption,
Moto

I won't upgrade either, but still good job on launching a refresh at exactly the right time. Now that Nvidia's 460 is doing well and the 470 and 480 can at last compete price-wise with their ATI equivalents, ATI is updating their products. Ouch time Nvidia...

So...... Am I right in thinking that the performance increases are going to be marginal? I hope these cards will positively affect other cards prices too. Come on bargain 5770's/470's!

Motopsychojdn you are just looking at some of the hardware specifications, if you care to take a look at the other article on the matter or search around, you'll notice that it should be a big improvement over the 5*** series, but if you take into account that some people like me still have 4870's we might be much more delighted by the performance amd previewing... =)

Hmm whats up with the naming convention?

Surely the 6870 should be better performance than the 5870, not just the 5850??

Seems odd that the new 6870 has fewer stream processors than the 5850 card. I can see the memory bandwidth is still 256bit and the ddr5 is running 200mhz faster along with a gpu speed increase of 125mhz. Surely any performance increase is going to be negligable if any in the latest titles or worse considering ATi cards handle tessalation rather badly compared to Nvidia cards. I'd of though keeping the 1440 stream processors would have been better to be honest.

Well they're not exactly looking revolutionary, I guess prices are going to be the deciding factor here then.

More likely, these are 6750 and 6770 rather than 6850 and 6870. Typos in the slide or yet another media fuzz?

qtechbg

its been announced already that the 6800 series is the same as the 5700 series. This means that there will probably be a 6950 , 6970 and 6990 (dual gpu)

actually, i believe the 5870 and 5850 will be like the 6770 and 6750.

so from here on, we can only assume the cayman gpus will be faster and probably be branded something higher like 6950, 6970 and 6990 (antilles).

Is it just me, or is everyone assuming the exact same IPC/performance per stream processor? I'll wait until we see actual tests before deciding they'll be faster/slower.

There were never supposed to be - these are basically 5000 series cores with Northern Islands uncore. It's the full-fat 7000 series Northern Islands next year that will be the big push.

Personally, there's nothing really wrong with the 5000 series - if these 6000 series can greatly improve tessellation and drivers give great Crossfire scaling that's all AMD will need to do to hold off Nvidia until NI hits next year.

Although if Nvidia release a GTX 485 with a 100% functional Fermi core then the game is on.

Took the words right out my fingers mate.....