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XFX Radeon HD 6870 Smiles for the Camera

lol the 5770 replacement will be the.....5770, these cards will be in a different performance/price category, the 5770 was a mid range card, these are upper mid range.
 
Hi there

How many times does one have to repeart themselves?

57xx series is not been replaced - FACT!
The 57xx won't be replaced until Q1 next year - FACT!

The 68xx cards coming will perform between 5770 - 5850 levels, NOT ABOVE. Anyone thinking a new faster 5870 is coming in the next 2-3 weeks is deeply mistaken.

69xx cards coming mid-end November should offer 5850 and 5870 beating performance and expect a new Dual GPU card in December at a crazy price point.
 
Gibbo said:
Hi there

How many times does one have to repeart themselves?

57xx series is not been replaced - FACT!
The 57xx won't be replaced until Q1 next year - FACT!

The 68xx cards coming will perform between 5770 - 5850 levels, NOT ABOVE. Anyone thinking a new faster 5870 is coming in the next 2-3 weeks is deeply mistaken.

69xx cards coming mid-end November should offer 5850 and 5870 beating performance and expect a new Dual GPU card in December at a crazy price point.
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So Gibbo how much are these new cards going to set us back?
 
Does anyone else NOT like these recent 'shelled' graphics card looks? Why the plastic casing? I wanna see GADGETRY! Bit and bobs, circuitry, memory chips, heatsinks - the lot! Not some cheap looking matte plastic shield, like maybe underneath it's actually all paperclips and rubber bands.

I've got a Powercolor 5770 and it's pretty much a heatsink and a fan welded on top of a chunk of raw technology, all exposed. IMO looks WAY better than any stupid branded sticker.
 
Actually I much prefer the simple 'clean' look of AMD's reference design, and I would prefer it without without tacky stickers.
I also think black PCB's look much better than red, green or blue...
 
So they took the "misleading" new naming policy then ?

Wow what a load of crap tbh, so you can get a low range card, that "might" be as good as the old mid range, but at the same price as the current midrange.

seems pointless to touch these cards if you are buying low range, might as well pick up the 5850 or 470 after all imho
 
I hate naming policy changes! But i think the card looks nice. Disappointed at the lack of a backplate though. Really tops the card off in terms of looks, especially when you only ever see the back side of the card :( hopefully the 6900s have one on.
 
^^^
Tri-fire or quad-fire was hardly great in terms of scaling anyway, and is pretty pointless IMO.
If you need more performance you should probably look to Cayman, as IMO it's a bad idea going xfire with midrange when faster single GPU's are an option.

Hopefully AMD continue this trend with everything under the 69XX's as I'm hoping it will lighten the load on the driver team and allow them to focus more resources on innovation and reliability.
 
Relentless81 said:
FUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

I've been waiting until October and now I have to wait until November, Nvidia is getting more and more tempting
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HI there

What I can tell you is this:-

GTX 480 will still give ATI's November single GPU flagship card competition.

GTX 470 will sit similar/between ATI's November single GPU offerings.

GTX 460 1GB will rival the so-called 6870 your all talking about.

GTX 460 768MB will rival the so called 6850 your heard rumours off.

5770 has now dropped in price as can be seen reflected by our pricing and this product is remaining for a good 3 months to come. :)


Off course I cannot disclose pricing, names or actual performance due to NDA.


NVIDIA's lineup is now complete from GT 430 upto GTX 480 with solid price points and solid performance. Its unlikely NVIDIA will launch a new high-end card now this year, but not impossible.
 
Gibbo said:
HI there

What I can tell you is this:-

GTX 480 will still give ATI's November single GPU flagship card competition.

GTX 470 will sit similar/between ATI's November single GPU offerings.

GTX 460 1GB will rival the so-called 6870 your all talking about.

GTX 460 768MB will rival the so called 6850 your heard rumours off.

5770 has now dropped in price as can be seen reflected by our pricing and this product is remaining for a good 3 months to come. :)


Off course I cannot disclose pricing, names or actual performance due to NDA.


NVIDIA's lineup is now complete from GT 430 upto GTX 480 with solid price points and solid performance. Its unlikely NVIDIA will launch a new high-end card now this year, but not impossible.
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Hi mate, thanks for the detailed info

I'm looking at upper mid range as you probably guessed, between £250 and £300 max

I was naive to think these price point 69** cards would be out this month but they arent and as I have never bought an ATI card before the 470 becomes more tempting, I was hoping Nvidia might release some info on a card that replaces the 470 in response to ATI's new offererings but seeing as though these price point cards are not out until November thats even more unlikely now :(
 
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RavenXXX2 said:
http://www.techpowerup.com/132790/XFX-Radeon-HD-6870-Smiles-for-the-Camera.html

XFX is ready with the first AIB-branded Radeon HD 6000 series graphics card to be caught on camera. Its Radeon HD 6870 graphics card bears a racy-looking AMD reference-design blower-type cooling solution, with its own company sticker. The company has opted for the AMD-branded Radeon logo. It draws power from two 6-pin power connectors, has no backplate on the PCB's reverse side, and sports a custom-design rear-panel on which the XFX logo is etched on the exhaust. Display connectors include two DVI, an HDMI, and two mini-DisplayPort. Radeon HD 6870 is intended to be a successor to the Radeon HD 5700 series, a performance segment product targeting a price sweet-spot. Radeon HD 5800 series successors are Radeon HD 6900 series.

I like.

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Great shape, great size. Can't wait to see the 6970.
 
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