AMD's Radeon HD 6870 benchmarked? (updated more screens)

[sam3]

Having being teased with the codenames of AMD's Radeon HD 6000-series GPUs earlier this week, a screen-shot of a benchmark may now reveal how the upcoming flagship card will perform.

The screen-grab was posted on a Chinese forum and shows the results of a 3DMark Vantage run. Reportedly from a card that will become the HD 6870, the results show a score of X11963. This compares to around X9000 for an HD 5870 and somewhere close to X10000 for NVIDIA's top-of-the-line GeForce GTX 480.

This is a sizeable improvement considering that the new GPUs are to be based on the same basic design as the HD 5000-series cards, it is commonly understood.



The only other details are that the core was clocked at 850MHz while the memory was running at 1,600MHz, or an effective 6.4GHz. Since this is the same GPU frequency as the HD 5870, the performance increase is likely to have come from increasing the shader count over the older card's 1,600.

The memory speed is a little anomalous, having been increased by 400MHz (1,600MHz effective) over the current-generation's 1,200MHz GDDR5. The increase isn't impossible, but it would be quite the achievement by AMD's engineers. Of course, this could be an overclocked card or an engineering sample with non-reference frequencies.

This is completely unverifiable, and with nothing else to go on, the screenshot could easily be a fake. Unfortunately, we won't know for sure until the cards are officially unveiled, which is expected to happen in the coming months.

News Source
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=26184

Original source
http://we.pcinlife.com/thread-1498296-1-1.html

Update (thanks to kaktus1907 #67)
More benchmarks (using new driver 8.14.10.0786)







Source (original)
http://we.pcinlife.com/thread-1500103-1-1.html

[informal]

Already posted...

[sam3]

Already posted...

Yeah sorry - jost noticed it's been added on to the back of an older ati thread
Since its new news - doesnt it deserve its own thread

[BobyTT]

Just learn to use the search....

[Manicdan]

Just learn to use the search....

many people agree the search is not the greatest.

i think the interesting part is that Wizzard says its possible this was real

[sam3]

Just learn to use the search....

I did search
Someone posted a screenshot on the end of an old thread.
Screenshots dont come up in search
Am i supposed to go through every old thread, check through every post to find out someone posted a screenshot on page 4 (out of 5) of an old thread?????????????????????????

[BobyTT]

Thats not excuse to post something 20 times.

[Manicdan]

Thats not excuse to post something 20 times.

good job derailing a thread with 2 worthless posts after a guy already apologized for double posting. and the guy dosnt even have 20 post counts, lol. yeah he must be spamming us non stop, lol

[crazydiamond]

wow tough crowd..

thx for the thread, i havent seen this yet so its news to me

[HelixPC]

Thats not excuse to post something 20 times.

Are you the internet police?

[BobyTT]

As i said just tired to read "news" posted 20 times.. May be people like you need to read something couple of times, in order to remember it.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Meh, deserves its own thread and I hadn't seen it yet cuz I expected a new thread to appear for something like this anyway. This would be higher than I expected, not entirely impossible but sounds a bit too positive IMO for a generation on a very tight schedule and rather minimalistic changes. If it would be true then that's a GREAT achievement from AMD.

What does a HD 5970 score? I'm not used to Vantage scores as I've never benched it myself. ^^

[ajaidev]

As i said just tired to read "news" posted 20 times.. May be people like you need to read something couple of times, in order to remember it.

It happens all the time in XS people double post/threads if you dont replay to such a thread it dies.

So let it be and this thread will die in a few hrs not a thing to get pissed about...

[sam3]

good job derailing a thread with 2 worthless posts after a guy already apologized for double posting. and the guy dosnt even have 20 post counts, lol. yeah he must be spamming us non stop, lol

wow tough crowd..

thx for the thread, i havent seen this yet so its news to me

Are you the internet police?

many people agree the search is not the greatest.

i think the interesting part is that Wizzard says its possible this was real

Thanks for the comments\defence people
I was pleasantly surprised when I joined this forum at the quality, general friendliness of the members, willingness to give help/advice to people and the general lack of flamers/mini-modding.
The admins/mods have done a good job but it looks like one person got through

I still dont know how i was supposed to search and find the original post?
For starters it was buried in the middle of an old thread.
The orginal poster only posted a screenshot and said "real or fake".
What search terms was I supposed to use to find this then?

[RPGWiZaRD]

But what about people that actually prefer to be categorized that feel like different news deserves its own thread rather than having to check say a 50 page old thread with lots of random talk and very few actual news posts. Who's opinion is right here, try and answer that if you can? (My answer would be FUGGER ) It's not always the lack of search that is the issue but the different opinions about posting news in an old vs a new thread. But this is not really news but rumors for starters...

[HelixPC]

But what about people that actually prefer to be categorized that feel like different news deserves its own thread rather than having to check say a 50 page old thread with lots of random talk and very few actual news posts. Who's opinion is right, try and answer that if you can?

I agree +1

[Calmatory]

many people agree the search is not the greatest.

i think the interesting part is that Wizzard says its possible this was real

He merely said that he sees no flaws in this faked pic.

[Manicdan]

Meh, deserves its own thread and I hadn't seen it yet cuz I expected a new thread to appear for something like this anyway. This would be higher than I expected, not entirely impossible but sounds a bit too positive IMO for a generation on a very tight schedule and rather minimalistic changes. If it would be true then that's a GREAT achievement from AMD.

What does a HD 5970 score? I'm not used to Vantage scores as I've never benched it myself. ^^

in the last thread someone showed referenced values for other cards:


i find this value too high. but i do expect such gains for dx11 stuff, cause honestly thats what this card is being built for.
for Dx10, maybe 10-15% due to higher clocks and better efficiency of power, but the architecture changes i doubt will do much for efficiency of perf/watt, just perf/mm2

[spursindonesia]

@OP, relax man, you don't need other people validation or blessing, as long as you don't disturb other people bussiness, all is fine. Just ignore the ignorasmus.

EDIT: LOL already answered.

[Manicdan]

^lol you double posted me
quick get him!!!

[mongoled]

Thanks for the comments\defence people
I was pleasantly surprised when I joined this forum at the quality, general friendliness of the members, willingness to give help/advice to people and the general lack of flamers/mini-modding.
The admins/mods have done a good job but it looks like one person got through

I still dont know how i was supposed to search and find the original post?
For starters it was buried in the middle of an old thread.
The orginal poster only posted a screenshot and said "real or fake".
What search terms was I supposed to use to find this then?

Hey, take no notice of the few negatives

The search does suck so dont beat up on yourself about it.

and......

Welcome to XS



- EDIT -

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, you are all too fast, lol

[ethomaz]

Author of GPU-Z
nothing i can see in the gpuz part of the screenshot that suggests it's fake

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=129668

[dinos22]

interesting if true but sounds a bit premature.....maybe someone is just messing with ppl to get some traffic on their site

[hurleybird]

So, assuming this is true, one would think that this could just as easily be 6850. I mean, 400+mm2 with a 256-bit memory controller makes more sense if this is a cut down part

[ethomaz]

By last ATI drivers...

233,CAYMAN XT (6718),NI CAYMAN

So HD 6870.