Rumour: AMD preparing "revision" for HD 6950/6970?

[Gragget]

Alls I can say for gaming a lot on the same games with a 6950 and a 5850- they both seem to have as much straight line power under the hood, but the 6950 really pulls away when the going gets tough- a great example is changing turns in civ 5. The 5850 really used to lag at 875/1250, the 6950 maintains a really smooth framerate throughout.

What really impresses me is that the 5850 was outputting to a 1640x1040 monitor...the 6950 is on 1920x1200. That means its doing much better, with a third more pixels to cope with.

Thats great to hear.

But what i meant was, if there is any news concerning the rumored revision of the pcb. I am hoping for maybe a little cooler and quieter cards, just because auf the TI dr MOS http://www.ti.com/ww/de/analog/dualcool/index.shtml .

I am wondering if there really will be a new revision, if it will be released to markets without further notice and i t will be kind of russion roulette to get a new or old version. Or if there will be a press release .. .

 

[Yamahahahahaha]

tl;dr Changes for VLIW5 vs VLIW4

VLIW5:
* 4 32-bit FP MAD
* Or 2 64-bit FP MUL or ADD
* Or 1 64-bit FP MAD
* Or 4 24-bit Int MUL or ADD
* Plus 1 transcendental or 1 32-bit FP MAD

VLIW4:
* 4 32-bit FP MAD/MUL/ADD
* Or 2 64-bit FP ADD
* Or 1 64-bit FP MAD/FMA/MUL
* Or 4 24-bit INT MAD/MUL/ADD
* Or 4 32-bit INT ADD/Bitwise
* Or 1 32-bit MAD/MUL
* Or 1 64-bit ADD
* Or 1 transcendental plus 1 32-bit FP MAD

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4061/amds-radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950/4

 

[albert]

I updated the BIOS on my card and now have a HD6970 .... the fastest card i've ever owned. Glad i bought this bad boy when i did.

 

[HighlandeR]

Theres 1gig 6950s coming soon...

http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/item/21556-his-working-on-hd-6950-1gb-card

But no dual bios and missing 1gig, so im guessing these cards and the newer 6950 2gig versions wont be hackable to 6970.

Even im debating buy now or not would be nice too see if the news is confirmed...

 

[413x]

^ me too

 

[Shayper]

It would be nice to think that like the cpu's amd aren't blocking unlocking of their gpu's. Unless they've locked that down since my 550 be. However going by the new dual cores I guess not