http://www.*****.net/content/item.php?item=27364 Sounds good
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6970 specs
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1536 shaders is a bit of an odd number, I wonder if it's built with 1600 but they're disabling 64 of them to increase yields like Nvidia did with Fermi?
I'm just speculating here but it might explain the Fudzilla article about yields being less than 10%, perhaps that is just referring to the full 1600 cores and ATi are not worried about yields because they won't be using the full 1600.
I'm just speculating here but it might explain the Fudzilla article about yields being less than 10%, perhaps that is just referring to the full 1600 cores and ATi are not worried about yields because they won't be using the full 1600.
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I don't believe that rumour about yields being less than 10% - surely if that were true it would make more financial sense for the new 6800 series cards to have been speed binned 6900's - i.e. you release the faster cards and then do the usual trick of renaming the rejects to lower end parts.
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They might not have enough usable 6900 chips after binning but have plenty of 6800 chips off the same wafer.
This could be why its being said about poor yeilds.
This could be why its being said about poor yeilds.
Where's AMD at, we have Nvidia releasing their new top GPU and AMD are nowhere insight with some performance figures to spoil the 580 party. IMO this could be a sign that the 6970 is not the beast we are hoping it would be.
But that just gives you more of the lower end parts and doesn't solve the problem of poor yields at the highend, if 6970 specs dictate only 1536 shaders instead of the full 1600 then that would boost 6970 yields considerably; and the 6950 will presumably be for selling the really bad ones.
A report of less than 10% yields doesn't really say anything, yields of what exactly? it could be that they have 90% yields for the 6970 with 1536 cores, but only 8% yields of perfect 1600 cores.
Like I said I'm only speculating but it would make sense from a business perspective.
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Lol, you wouldn't buy one even if it were. I guess time will tell but for now it looks like only smarties have the answer
Going by past history, his sig and attitude would change in a nano second if the 6970 were to slap the 580 around.
Im more interested in seeing the 6990 and what it brings to the table. Hopefully its no longer than the 5970.
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Looking at benchies for the 6870, you can see the architecture for the 6000 series is better than the 5000 series, i.e the hardware can do more with less.
So will need to wait for concrete benchies to determine how good this card is.
So will need to wait for concrete benchies to determine how good this card is.
Dual GPU cards scare me - They will never be in your system long enough to justify the initial price because you can guarantee that they will be obsolete by that time - new versions of DX that it doesn't support, newer architecture etc etc
