It matching the 5970 in certain scenarios is certainly interesting too. That should be a good idea of the range of performance this thing might have
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It matching the 5970 in certain scenarios is certainly interesting too. That should be a good idea of the range of performance this thing might have
if a single 6970 match a 5970 i think people who dislike dual gpu approach would like this card very much
hopefully they reworked the heatsink...maybe a vapor chamber? more heatpipes?
if it has the same heatsink as the 6870 then this will be hot!
lol ATI use vapor chamber since a real real long time on their high end card.
My friend had bought a Sapphire HD 3870 Atomic in 2008 and all i could think was that its a gimmick the vapor chamber did not seem like a important technology to me at that time.
The Sapphire card was quite expensive compared to others even more so in India and i was not sure how well it could deal with the heat with its small heat sink :p:
What are we looking at here exactly? ^:shrug:
Edit: More pictures were added while I posted, sorry. Can't wait for these cards to actually surface and make up for the 6870s...
And no backplate.
I think that is 6950. 2+ 6pin power connector, no backplate and you can see missing transistors for power regulation (4 of 6 phases??)
it's 6950 and not the final version of card.. one of the old engineering samples.. ati logo is shining
someone should post the source for those pics
It still might be 2GB model, they'll just use 2Gbit chips.
Looks almost exactly like a 5870 except for the shroud.
best news is that it has 2 xfire connectors.