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Radeon HD 6970 (Cayman XT) 3DMark Vantage test results floating around in the X12000, but P mode is P24499. In Unigine Heaven (1920 1200 4AA +16 AF) environmental setting speed was 36.6 frames.

HD 5870 3DMark Vantage P19337 results obtained in Unigine Heaven (1920 1200 4AA +16 AF) running 17.3 frames. The same platform GTX 480 3DMark Vantage P21106 and X9309 results obtained in Unigine Heaven (1920 1600 4AA +16 AF) speed is 29.5.

There is no doubt Radeon HD 6970 (Cayman XT) will be the king of a single card in the same circumstances beyond the GTX 480 performance above 10%, from tests run with oppressive power.

However, the card is still within the sample card, similar to plate 5870, the core at 800MHz-900MHz frequency range, power supply interface is 6 +8, I believe should be 255W TDP or more.
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Interesting, nice find. I guess the above scores are with extreme tesselation?

Doesnt look too exciting for 5870/470/480 owners though. Maybe 20% faster than 5870 and 10% faster than 480? If so it's not worth an upgrade.
 
Looking at the vantage and Heaven scores though it could well be a lot more than 10% faster than a gtx480.

The Heaven framerate is double that of a 5870 which is impressive. And Vantage X score is 30% up on a gtx480 and heaven is 20% up.
 
So the question is.. have they improved the tessellation in order to get those scores, OR... are the scores now held back by the lack of better tessellation and in fact the card is much faster? (No idea if 'extreme' tessellation was turned on?)
 
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Scougar said:
So the question is.. have the improved the tessellation in order to get those scores, OR... are the scores now held back by the lack of better tessellation and in fact the card is much faster? (No idea if 'extreme' tessellation was turned on?)
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They are comparing to the 5870 score which is a score with extreme tesseletion so it must have been on for the cayman xt. I have seen this info a while back though or the same kind of scores and everyone thought it was fake. They were screenshots with the same results as this article so it may infact be somebody just taking those scores and putting them in an article
 
Scougar said:
So the question is.. have they improved the tessellation in order to get those scores, OR... are the scores now held back by the lack of better tessellation and in fact the card is much faster? (No idea if 'extreme' tessellation was turned on?)
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Should have improved Tessellation.

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Wonder what those two term's actually refer to though?

"Scalability": Not sure how that applies to tessellation?
"off-chip buffering": What is being buffered exactly?

Gives no clues as to how the tessellation is being improved. Maybe before release they don't want to say anything.
 
If a 255mm Barts can get close to the 350mm Cypress then a similarly sized Cayman should be able to offer a good 25-40% increase in performance.

Time will tell, but i am confident that AMD will deliver. Don't forget that these increases are achieved WITHOUT any shrinks, these are pure architectural improvements.

Nvidia will probably counter these chips with fully unlocked versions of its own chips. As far as i know nearly all Fermi based chips had parts disabled for redundancy.
 
Scougar said:
Wonder what those two term's actually refer to though?

"Scalability": Not sure how that applies to tessellation?
"off-chip buffering": What is being buffered exactly?

Gives no clues as to how the tessellation is being improved. Maybe before release they don't want to say anything.
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Well the following article seems to show that Cypress actually has a fast triangle setup rate, just when Tessellating, it seems to run out of space in its internal buffers, if they fixed that then Tessellation speed should increase a lot.

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/reviews/55/10
 
straxusii said:
Doesnt look too exciting for 5870/470/480 owners though. Maybe 20% faster than 5870 and 10% faster than 480? If so it's not worth an upgrade.
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10-20% better performance for 36% increase in power consumption (255 watts Vs. 188 watts)? That doesn't sound like a video card that's been designed for better efficiency.
 
This picture is old, about 1 month ago and probably shows a testing barts board with two crossfire connects.

It would appear that these figures look nothing more than estimates.

What I find quiet astonishing is how well AMD have hidden this card away and how little info were getting released on it.
 
Skyrocket said:
This picture is old, about 1 month ago and probably shows a testing barts board with two crossfire connects.

It would appear that these figures look nothing more than estimates.

What I find quiet astonishing is how well AMD have hidden this card away and how little info were getting released on it.
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Given how little info we got on the Barts XT and Pro chips it's no surprise to me, AMD runs a tight ship and information is hard to come by. I've read about 3 reviews now of the 6800' cards and both Ryan Smith at Anand and the guy at overclock3D.net (does youtube video reviews as well) said they had only just received the cards from AMD and barely had enough time to get the review done before the NDA expired.
 
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