AMD rolls out Radeon HD 6000M GPUs

[zalbard]

Source: http://www.fudzilla.com/

AMD followed up the official release of Fusion platform by announcing its newest HD 6000M series mobile GPUs. The entire Radeon HD 6000M series has DirectX 11 support, HD3D for stereo 3D and AMD's EyeSpeed technology.

Although it has been noted that the Radeon HD 6000M series will feature the HD 6900M/6800M for enthusiast market, HD 6700M, 6600M and 6500M for the performance, Radeon HD 6400M for mainstream and Radeon HD 6300M for "thin and light", for now, AMD has only released full specs for the HD 6300M and the 6500M GPUs.

The HD 6500M features 400 stream processors and 20 texture units, core clock set between 500 and 650MHz, 400 to 520 GigaFLOPS of processing power and either DDR3 or GDDR5 memory working at 1.8GHz and 3.6GHz.

The slower Radeon HD 6300M features 80 stream processors and 8 texture units, GPU clocked between 500 and 750MHz offering between 80 to 120 GigaFLOPS of processing power, and DDR3 memory with clocks depending on the choice of memory (1.6 or 1.8GHz).

The AMD Radeon 6000M series GPUs have been seen running in a couple of notebooks already and we are sure that we'll see more, and the rest of the lineup pretty soon.

Hm, no 6900M specs...
But others look good. Just need some reviews of the notebooks now, to see them in action.

[Sgt.McRuff]

http://www.amd.com/us/products/noteb...n-6900m.aspx#2
6900m

* 960 Stream Processing Units
* 48 Texture Units
* 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
* 32 Color ROP Units

core: 580-680 MHz
mem: 900 MHz

Edit:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/hard...ity-6000m.html

[AliG]

http://www.amd.com/us/products/noteb...n-6900m.aspx#2
6900m

* 960 Stream Processing Units
* 48 Texture Units
* 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
* 32 Color ROP Units

core: 580-680 MHz
mem: 900 MHz

Nice, more powerful than 5870M and should be considerably more power efficient

[Lanek]

Look similar of the 6850.

[iMacmatician]

So it goes something like this?

6900M: Barts
6800M: Juniper
6700M/6600M: Turks?
6500M: Redwood
6400M: Caicos?
6300M: Cedar

If that's the case we have the SP counts of Turks (480) and Caicos (160)…

[iddqd]

Look similar of the 6850.

no surprise there.

5870M looks suspiciously similar to 5770

[dartaz]

no surprise there.

5870M looks suspiciously similar to 5770

5870M has lower default clock speed

So, it is even weaker than HD5770 even though both have 800sp

And 6900m also has lower clock speed than HD6850

[[XC] hipno650]

the real question is what is the bus width? if it's 256bit then this will make a great chip if it's not.....then nothing really to see here. my bet is on 256bit tho...

[marten_larsson]

the real question is what is the bus width? if it's 256bit then this will make a great chip if it's not.....then nothing really to see here. my bet is on 256bit tho...

With 960SPs it should be 256bit since it should be a Barts GPU. Doesn't make much sense in making another die just for mobile.

[andos]

Hm.. 6800M = Juniper.

[[XC] hipno650]

With 960SPs it should be 256bit since it should be a Barts GPU. Doesn't make much sense in making another die just for mobile.

well they can't just plaster a barts GPU into it and call it a day.... the chip is mobile designed it's just very similar to barts. but like I said i expect it to be 256bit but we don't know for sure...

[jeremyshaw]

well they can't just plaster a barts GPU into it and call it a day.... the chip is mobile designed it's just very similar to barts. but like I said i expect it to be 256bit but we don't know for sure...

Actually, that is what they do, afaik. They bin, powergate, undervolt, anything under the sun, to get a mobile GPU that is acceptably fast with a low power consumption. That's why a HD5870m will go for about 350usd (w/o OEM HSF), while most will never even touch a HD5770 that expensive. But both are the same die.

[iMacmatician]

well they can't just plaster a barts GPU into it and call it a day.... the chip is mobile designed it's just very similar to barts. but like I said i expect it to be 256bit but we don't know for sure...

According to the specs page it has 900 MHz memory and 115.2 GB/s bandwidth which means 256-bit bus.

[quake6]

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Rad...M.43077.0.html

It seems that it is 256bit

And some tests
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alie...y-wanna-c.html

[SpuTnicK]

Strange, but 6850M has 256-bit, while its elder brother 6870m has only 128-bit memory interface. A typo? but where?

[Nintendork]

Based on Juniper so yes, it's a typo. 128bit for the 6800M.

[zerazax]

Barts in a mobile platform will be very awesome

[iddqd]

^
should be about twice as fast a 5870M

[Nintendork]

Now if the new low end gpu in desktops is the HD6450 160SP, sb igp instantly becomes obsolete as a "perform as low end". It was pretty funny compare it with 1 year old low end(wich was also a rehash of a two year old chip 4350/4550).


Reading the official specs:
HD6700M/6600M based on dekstop Turks (half Barts Pro)
HD6500M based on Redwood
HD6400M based on Caicos

http://www.amd.com/us/products/noteb...n-6400m.aspx#2
http://www.amd.com/us/products/noteb...n-6500m.aspx#2
http://www.amd.com/us/products/noteb...m-6600m.aspx#2

If I'm correct the next desktop chips should look like this.

HD6700 Turks XT
560SP
28Texture Units
16Rops
GDDR5
128bit

HD6600 Turks Pro
480SP
24Texture Units
8Rops
GDDR5
128bit

HD6500 Redwood
400SP
20Texture Units
8Rops
DDR3/GDDR5
128bit

HD6400 Caicos
160SP
8Texture Units
4Rops
DDR3/GDDR5
64bit

[saaya]

no surprise there.

5870M looks suspiciously similar to 5770

yeah, same i was thinking...

not that its bad for a laptop, but for a DTR thats definitely not enough... then AGAIN they dont make proper DTRs anymore these days with 15" being the biggest