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AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series Overview official

Up in the morning, the first thing is that this document is the official a few days ago to AMD, I ignore you NDA

AMD Radeon™ HD 6800 Series GPU Detailed Feature Summary
AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 GPU Feature Summary:
 GDDR5 memory interface
 PCI Express® 2.1 x16 bus interface
 ―Eye-Definition‖ graphics
o Second generation graphics with full DirectX® 11 support
 Shader Model 5.0
 DirectCompute 11
 Programmable hardware tessellation unit
 Accelerated multi-threading
 HDR texture compression
 Order-independent transparency
o Image quality enhancement technology
 AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology1
 AMD EyeSpeed visual acceleration3
o AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology
 OpenCLSupport
 DirectCompute 11
 Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling2
o UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
o Enhanced Video Quality features
 Advanced post-processing and scaling
 Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
 Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
 Independent video gamma control
 Dynamic video range control
 AMD HD3D technology
o Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
o Blu-ray 3D support
o Stereoscopic 3D gaming
o 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
 AMD CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology5
o Dual GPU scaling3
 Cutting-edge integrated display support
o Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP
o Integrated DisplayPort 1.2 output
o Integrated HDMI 1.4a with support for stereoscopic 3D
o Integrated VGA output
 Integrated HD audio controller
o Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
o Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
 AMD PowerPlay™ power management technology
o Dynamic power management with low power idle state
o Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
 AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD video configuration software
o Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP
o AMD Catalyst™ Control Center - AMD Catalyst™ software application and user interface for setup, configuration, and accessing features of ATI Radeon products.
o Unified Graphics display driver - AMD Catalyst™ software enabling other PC programs and devices to use advanced graphics, video, and features of AMD Radeon™ products.

AMD Radeon™ HD 6850 GPU Feature Summary
 GDDR5 memory interface
 PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
 ―Eye-Definition‖ graphics
o Second generation graphics with full DirectX® 11 support
 Shader Model 5.0
 DirectCompute 11
 Programmable hardware tessellation unit
 Accelerated multi-threading
 HDR texture compression
 Order-independent transparency
o Image quality enhancement technology
 AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology
 AMD EyeSpeed visual acceleration
o AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) technology
 OpenCLSupport
 DirectCompute 11
 Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling
o UVD 3 dedicated video playback accelerator
o Enhanced Video Quality features
 Advanced post-processing and scaling
 Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
 Brighter whites processing (Blue Stretch)
 Independent video gamma control
 Dynamic video range control
 AMD HD3D technology
o Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
o Blu-ray 3D support
o Stereoscopic 3D gaming
o 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support
 AMD CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology3
o Dual GPU scaling
 Cutting-edge integrated display support
o Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP
o Integrated DisplayPort 1.2 output

6800 planned Oct. 19 release, the original 6870 production early August was going quite well (we visit it its own calculation of Distribution), the end product, 6900 Series is scheduled for release in November. First burst so much, next time be adjourned to the......

[Frontl1ne]

AMD Radeon HD 6800 Series Overview official

Up in the morning, the first thing is that this document is the official a few days ago to AMD, I ignore you NDA

AMD HD3D technology
o Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
o Blu-ray 3D support
o Stereoscopic 3D gaming
o 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support

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AMD HD3D technology
o Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
o Blu-ray 3D support
o Stereoscopic 3D gaming
o 3rd party Stereoscopic 3D middleware software support

Is that really new? Looks to me, like they just named something, that was already in there to make it look better. They still don't offer their own solution and are hoping, someone will do it for them.

[Frontl1ne]

Is that really new? Looks to me, like they just named something, that was already in there to make it look better. They still don't offer their own solution and are hoping, someone will do it for them.

I kinda thought when they mentioned "AMD HD3D technology" that it was their own 3D tech, hence why I was surprised