AMD Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 confirmed to be launched on 22.10.2010

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Well actually the GT200 is just G92 with double the ROPS + double the buswidth + some other features.

It's not a new architecture, it's a G92 refresh but Nvidia felt that it should name it 200 series. (Oh wait, Nvidia did actaully make G92 the 200 series )

Lemme try again...

Well actually Fermi is just GT200 shrunk with rearranged ROPS + GDDR5 + better Tesselator + some CUDA changes.

It's not a new architecture, it's a GT200 refresh but Nvidiaf elt that it should name it 400 series.

See what we did there?

Everything since unified shader architecture became the norm is just a "refresh" of before, and frankly, this is as close to an architecture change for ATI as we've seen since R600

Because you trying to be a smartass,

Those three are different architectures



Have a look at ATIs generations


HD38xx (320 SP, 666mil, 192mm2, 55nm)


HD48xx (800 SP, 956mil, 259mm2, 55nm)


HD58xx (1600 SP, 2.1bil, 334mm2, 40nm)


HD68xx (1120 SP, 1.7bil, 255mm2, 40nm)


I believe now you do understand that 6870 is a reconfigured Cypress. Even AMD themselves said it.