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    Quote Originally Posted by MrMojoZ View Post
    No, I can see the picture. If it was fake it'd certainly be invisible.
    Umm, you get the meaning of the word wrong...
    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fake
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    Quote Originally Posted by zalbard View Post
    Umm, you get the meaning of the word wrong...
    http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fake
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    No, I used it right. Ala "Your fake Canadian girlfriend called, the baby isn't yours because SHE ISN'T ACTUALLY REAL."

    You just put waaaaaay too much thought and effort into it.

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    stop wasting this thread space, there needs to be plenty of room for more rumors thanks :p
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    Sorry!

    I heard from my friend that his sister's husband (works for AMD) was flying to India soon in preparation for the launch of the 6k series!

    While this doesn't really tell us anything, it is actually true.

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    Thanks, information like this is ALWAYS (welcome) better than getting a English lesson


    Quote Originally Posted by MrMojoZ View Post
    Sorry!

    I heard from my friend that his sister's husband (works for AMD) was flying to India soon in preparation for the launch of the 6k series!

    While this doesn't really tell us anything, it is actually true.
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    Still 1GB of VRAM. Hope 2GB parts will not take 6 months to be released.
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    Thanks again cold2010

    Google translate not work very well ... The guy is really talking about 5830 performance for HD6850 ?

    Original thread :

    http://www.xfastest.com/viewthread.php?tid=51709
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    barts pro?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Olivon View Post
    Google translate not work very well ... The guy is really talking about 5830 performance for HD6850 ?
    No idea, but in any case drivers might just be really bad. WTB more hardware specific info.
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    223,CAYMAN GL XT (6700),NI CAYMAN
    224,CAYMAN GL XT (6701),NI CAYMAN
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    6739 = BARTS PRO IT SEEMS

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    According to the device ID it's a Barts Pro. And 5830 performance wouldn't be that bad if it was called 6700, but changing it to 6800 still doesn't make much sense.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zalbard View Post
    Still 1GB of VRAM. Hope 2GB parts will not take 6 months to be released.
    Why is everyone so hung up about VRAM? The 5870 2GB version showed a 1 to 2 fps difference even at the highest resolutions. Pretty sure AMD's engineers wouldn't intentionally bottleneck their own card.

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    more is better .... we need moarr vram
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    Every couple of generations, there is always a flagship card to skip.

    For example, the 3870's.... or for nVidia, the GTX280's... or even 480's...

    The reasons differ. Price, competition, etc.

    Will the 6K be a flagship to skip? I'm holding onto my 4870x2, saw no point in going to 5870/5890 (oops mean 5970), and this thread is becoming increasingly depressing as to what the 6xxx flagship will bring to the table.
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    Quote Originally Posted by CedricFP View Post
    Every couple of generations, there is always a flagship card to skip.

    For example, the 3870's.... or for nVidia, the GTX280's... or even 480's...

    The reasons differ. Price, competition, etc.

    Will the 6K be a flagship to skip? I'm holding onto my 4870x2, saw no point in going to 5870/5890, and this thread is becoming increasingly depressing as to what the 6xxx flagship will bring to the table.
    specially when there was no 5890...

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    So, Bart chips as the base of HD 68xx cards seem to be true. Well, it's rather unpleasant finding for me, but still just half of the story. Gotta know the pricing of these babies to really judge it whether it's just a rather confusing & quite dissapointing resegmenting but still a great value product, or a total bust as AMD cash cow consumer conning product.

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    Maybe the reign of most powerful card will still reside with the almighty 5970.... oh!... I meant 5890....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frontl1ne View Post
    Why is everyone so hung up about VRAM? The 5870 2GB version showed a 1 to 2 fps difference even at the highest resolutions. Pretty sure AMD's engineers wouldn't intentionally bottleneck their own card.
    Wrong.
    Just an example:



    More detailed research here.

    TL;DR: If you game at 2560x1600 or use Eyefinity it is a good idea to have over 1GB of VRAM.
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    Hopefully that's 68*50*, or the rumour about the renam is true. I will buy a new radeon if it has 2GB of ram and at least ~40% increase in eyefinity performance. Otherwise I won't.

    Edit: barts pro. Should have refreshed my screen. Shame on ATI if true for the annoying, misleading, and uneeded name change. Unless Barts outperforms cypress that is. That would be awesome.

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    Those pics confirmed the renames, though by definition it's not a rename because the product hasn't even been released

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    Quote Originally Posted by zalbard View Post
    Wrong.
    Just an example:



    More detailed research here.

    TL;DR: If you game at 2560x1600 or use Eyefinity it is a good idea to have over 1GB of VRAM.
    2560 x 1600 or higher resolution demographic ...

    Hmm ....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pantsu View Post
    According to the device ID it's a Barts Pro. And 5830 performance wouldn't be that bad if it was called 6700, but changing it to 6800 still doesn't make much sense.
    They never "changed" it...

    People are so hung up on the name. Look past the name and realize that this new midrange GPU is performing right with the old highend GPU, Cypress.
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    I don't understand why people are so mislead about VRAM. Every time we cross over to a new density the same thing happens. I saw this when cards went from 64 to 128, 128 to 256, 256 to 512, 512 to 1024, and (now soon) 1024 to 2048. Someone will review a card with more memory and act surprised that it isn't any faster. Like with your computer's RAM, more only matters if you don't already have enough. If you're paging, things slow way down. If you're not (ie: your content all fits into VRAM already), you aren't going to magically gain anything. It's a bit of a catch-22 as well. Developers don't make games with larger texture sets until there are cards with more VRAM getting to be mainstream. People don't often buy the more expensive cards until they see a benefit. The only things saving us are time (and its implications like DRAM getting cheaper regardless so eventually it isn't expensive to double the VRAM) and fancy extras like AA eating up memory space and bandwidth even if the game's assets don't by themselves.
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    Quote Originally Posted by zalbard View Post
    Wrong.
    Just an example:



    More detailed research here.

    TL;DR: If you game at 2560x1600 or use Eyefinity it is a good idea to have over 1GB of VRAM.
    To quote from the article:

    I picked a couple of the games that were running plenty-fast in the previous CrossFire chart and added 8xAA to them
    I didn't state that 2GB would be useless with massive amounts of AA combined with 3 monitors.

    However, looking at the 5760x1080 single card section, I still only see a difference of 1 - 3 frames.

    So yes, if you want to run 5760x1080 with 8xAA then 2GB will be worth it for you. But realistically, the number of people who even run eyefinity is miniscule, let alone those who think that 8xAA is necessary. Everyone else will not notice a difference between 1GB and 2GB VRAM, so I think most of them would prefer having 1GB of VRAM and lower costs on the cards.

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