AMD Trinity news (looks, its near to launch?)

[tbone8ty]

so the low end "new" 7000 series (im assuming 7700 and below) are they still the old school vliw5? will that combine well with the trinity vliw4 gpu?

like could u crossfire a 6870 and a 6970? thats basically what im asking

[Manicdan]

so the low end "new" 7000 series (im assuming 7700 and below) are they still the old school vliw5? will that combine well with the trinity vliw4 gpu?

like could u crossfire a 6870 and a 6970? thats basically what im asking

sorry i think they will be vliw4 in sizes appropriate to the APUs, just like the low end 6000s were using 5000 series cores to pair with APUs. when i said using 6000s as 7000s re-branded i didnt think about what the low end 6000s were.

theres probably a table out there showing the whole linup of 7000s that i got this info from.


for your question about xfire. amd designed each tier to be compatible with all things in that teir. so the lowest 6800 can xfire with the highest 6800, but not the highest 6700 or lowest 6900.
if you remember back the 4850 was near identical in perf to the 4770, but they could not work together so they gave it a whole different tier rather than calling it a 4830