New rumor about ATI Southern Islands

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The small branch is located in view of the performance between a current HD5770 and HD5870. In addition comes an eight-layer PCBs, 1GB GDDR5 memory with 5Gbps and 2x6pin power connectors are used. The TDP of the new pixels accelerator should be slightly higher than 150W and when connections are 2xDVI, HDMI, 2xMini-DP, with the support of Eyefinity 4, available. In addition, the chip of the "beard" Pinkomaptibel with the PCB is the HD5800, which will drive down production costs significantly. The above specifications refer to "Bart XT.

This sounds like either the HD6770 or the HD6850, if ATI keeps its current naming scheme. Most likely a 6850 since it uses two 6pins. The perf difference between a 5850 and a 5870 is roughly 10 - 15 %, so we'd only be seeing that much of an improvement for the HD6xxx series.

More information is available to us, relate to the GPU "Cayment" which will appear in November and October. This information confirmed our of 16 July this year. This GPU will have a 10-layer PCBs and large 1GB GDDR5 memory with 6Gbps. The graphics card needs to power a 6pin and 8pin power connector, the TDP comes to less than 300W. The connections are 2xDVI, HDMI, and 2xMini-DP.

That sounds like the HD6870 then. 1500MHz mem clock and 6+8 pins.

Doesn't really make sense, if the performance increase was only about 15% I don't think ATI would be bother releasing it as a next gen product.