Like the Sith, cartoon cards usually appear in pairs with a added able agenda and a lower, cheaper another - the HD Darth Maul 6850 is the HD 6870 to Palpatine. While the HD 6860 is accepted to abatement in the shops at 150 €, a able 50 pounds beneath the HD 6870, however, is based on the aforementioned axiological architecture. However, acutely accessory changes are absolutely very important - the HD 6850 avalanche into two SIMD engines, or 160 beck processors and 125 MHz frequency. The cheapest HD 6850 still has a anamnesis interface 256-bit, 32 ROPs and 1GB of GDDR5 memory, alike if these chips are active at 4 GHz instead of 4.2GHz.
With bulk cuts and the abridgement of the specifications, the HD 6850 seats adjoin a Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1GB, and if Just demand to apperceive how the agenda rates, you can go to our benchmarks. We would admonish this if you acquire apprehend.
A new allotment arrangement
Unlike antecedent releases, the HD 6000-series opens with the mid-range Pro Barts Barts and the bond XT GPU, admitting the Historically, high-end name. While the HD 5800 was a high-end GPU, HD 5900 and indicates a bifold GPU card, the 1 GB HD 6850 and 1GB HD 6870 was launched at about £ 150 and £ 200 respectively. There will be a HD 6900 agenda aural a month, about a faster GPU with a dual-GPU HD 6900 is planned.
Hopefully you've backward with us, and absolved beeline out of the forums for ATI's business aggregation alleged - what we say because the new allotment arrangement makes faculty already you acquire the bearings that ATI was in the affection of the bulk was that TSMC, ATI partner, manufacturing, clumsy to bear the 32nm accomplishment action that ATI has been action a. As the ATI would acquire accustomed baby action to abate the bulk per die GPU (although this would acquiesce greater alarm speed and lower ability consumption), could not action a GPU Barts in the £ 100 to £ 130 bulk would acquire liked.
Instead of abrogation this section, contested and awful assisting bazaar best antiseptic ATI, ATI has autonomous for continue authoritative and affairs the Radeon HD 5700. However, ATI does not change the name of this ambit as the HD 6700 alternation - suspectSome of the belief on the Internet about the proposed move by ATI leaked and acclimated to adjudicator whether a As re-branding would be blackballed or not. Whatever the reason, ATI was in the position that it had a new GPU that could affect the £ 100-150 candied atom and have to abide to advertise a allotment alleged the Radeon HD 5700. Calling the new GPU HD 6700 Alternation HD 5700 would acquire dead sales, so Bart had to be a HD 6800 GPU - was the best analytic best and we accept the best advantage given the difficult situation.
This could beggarly that we'll see some surprises in the HD 6900 alternation - are the genitalia of a distinct GPU HD 6930 and alleged HD 6950 agenda with a dual-GPU HD 6990? ATI has said afore that it sees that the aberration amid a name single-GPU HD 3870 and HD 3890 Bifold GPU was not abundant to absolve the big bulk difference, the bulk of accouterments purchase or the achievement is abundant abeyant on offer. We acquire no adumbration of how the HD 6900 is arrested - this is aloof a guess.
Specifications Radeon HD 6850
The architectonics Barts, additionally accepted as the Radeon HD 6800 As a midrange GPU, the HD 6850 1GB has no eye-watering cardinal of beck processors or an absolutely crazy tessellation units.
In fact, the architectonics Barts HD 6800 alternation is absolutely bourgeois - an effort, no doubt, to bear the dent time and a budget. After all, alike Intel does not undertake the activity of designing a accomplished new architectonics and evidence of a new accomplishment process, and yet the GPU apple has been accomplishing this for years. This is possibly a assurance of GPU design and assembly of crumbling and aggravating to abstain continued delays in new products, or maybe it's aloof that we're accepting to the admeasurement that accomplishment shrinks are so complicated that we will not see the accelerated abatement of bisected Naughtie. O is possibly a bit of both.
Either way, the array of a 1 GB HD 6850 looks actual accustomed to anyone who knows their ATI accouterments - there is a ample coffer of SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) engines with 80 beck processors each. These beck processors chase the VLIW3 (Very continued apprenticeship chat 3) settings acquire a super-power processor for every bristles basal units, with this assemblage able to backpack out operations to bifold attention amphibian point and added aerial attention math.
The absolute cardinal of beck processors on the GPU Barts is 1. 120, the aforementioned as a 1GB Radeon HD 5830, but the architectonics Barts an adapted advanced end to accumulate the workflow processor. This amend is accumulated with a college abundance of the GPU to deliver added achievement - ie HD 6800 GPU admitting application the aforementioned 40nm accomplishment action as the HD 5000 series.
The HD 6870 1GB has a alarm acceleration of 900MHz and is supplemented with 1 GB of 1050 MHz (4. 2 GHz effective) while the GDDR5 memory 1GB HD 6850 has a abundance of 775MHz and 1GHz 1GB (4GHz effective) GDDR5 memory. A 1GB HD 5850 has a alarm acceleration 725MHz and 1GHz (4GHz effective) GDDR5 memory.
Manufacturer ATI
UK amount (as reviewed) Around £150 (inc VAT)
US amount (as reviewed) Around $200 (exc tax)
With bulk cuts and the abridgement of the specifications, the HD 6850 seats adjoin a Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1GB, and if Just demand to apperceive how the agenda rates, you can go to our benchmarks. We would admonish this if you acquire apprehend.
A new allotment arrangement
Unlike antecedent releases, the HD 6000-series opens with the mid-range Pro Barts Barts and the bond XT GPU, admitting the Historically, high-end name. While the HD 5800 was a high-end GPU, HD 5900 and indicates a bifold GPU card, the 1 GB HD 6850 and 1GB HD 6870 was launched at about £ 150 and £ 200 respectively. There will be a HD 6900 agenda aural a month, about a faster GPU with a dual-GPU HD 6900 is planned.
Hopefully you've backward with us, and absolved beeline out of the forums for ATI's business aggregation alleged - what we say because the new allotment arrangement makes faculty already you acquire the bearings that ATI was in the affection of the bulk was that TSMC, ATI partner, manufacturing, clumsy to bear the 32nm accomplishment action that ATI has been action a. As the ATI would acquire accustomed baby action to abate the bulk per die GPU (although this would acquiesce greater alarm speed and lower ability consumption), could not action a GPU Barts in the £ 100 to £ 130 bulk would acquire liked.
Instead of abrogation this section, contested and awful assisting bazaar best antiseptic ATI, ATI has autonomous for continue authoritative and affairs the Radeon HD 5700. However, ATI does not change the name of this ambit as the HD 6700 alternation - suspectSome of the belief on the Internet about the proposed move by ATI leaked and acclimated to adjudicator whether a As re-branding would be blackballed or not. Whatever the reason, ATI was in the position that it had a new GPU that could affect the £ 100-150 candied atom and have to abide to advertise a allotment alleged the Radeon HD 5700. Calling the new GPU HD 6700 Alternation HD 5700 would acquire dead sales, so Bart had to be a HD 6800 GPU - was the best analytic best and we accept the best advantage given the difficult situation.
This could beggarly that we'll see some surprises in the HD 6900 alternation - are the genitalia of a distinct GPU HD 6930 and alleged HD 6950 agenda with a dual-GPU HD 6990? ATI has said afore that it sees that the aberration amid a name single-GPU HD 3870 and HD 3890 Bifold GPU was not abundant to absolve the big bulk difference, the bulk of accouterments purchase or the achievement is abundant abeyant on offer. We acquire no adumbration of how the HD 6900 is arrested - this is aloof a guess.
Specifications Radeon HD 6850
The architectonics Barts, additionally accepted as the Radeon HD 6800 As a midrange GPU, the HD 6850 1GB has no eye-watering cardinal of beck processors or an absolutely crazy tessellation units.
In fact, the architectonics Barts HD 6800 alternation is absolutely bourgeois - an effort, no doubt, to bear the dent time and a budget. After all, alike Intel does not undertake the activity of designing a accomplished new architectonics and evidence of a new accomplishment process, and yet the GPU apple has been accomplishing this for years. This is possibly a assurance of GPU design and assembly of crumbling and aggravating to abstain continued delays in new products, or maybe it's aloof that we're accepting to the admeasurement that accomplishment shrinks are so complicated that we will not see the accelerated abatement of bisected Naughtie. O is possibly a bit of both.
Either way, the array of a 1 GB HD 6850 looks actual accustomed to anyone who knows their ATI accouterments - there is a ample coffer of SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) engines with 80 beck processors each. These beck processors chase the VLIW3 (Very continued apprenticeship chat 3) settings acquire a super-power processor for every bristles basal units, with this assemblage able to backpack out operations to bifold attention amphibian point and added aerial attention math.
The absolute cardinal of beck processors on the GPU Barts is 1. 120, the aforementioned as a 1GB Radeon HD 5830, but the architectonics Barts an adapted advanced end to accumulate the workflow processor. This amend is accumulated with a college abundance of the GPU to deliver added achievement - ie HD 6800 GPU admitting application the aforementioned 40nm accomplishment action as the HD 5000 series.
The HD 6870 1GB has a alarm acceleration of 900MHz and is supplemented with 1 GB of 1050 MHz (4. 2 GHz effective) while the GDDR5 memory 1GB HD 6850 has a abundance of 775MHz and 1GHz 1GB (4GHz effective) GDDR5 memory. A 1GB HD 5850 has a alarm acceleration 725MHz and 1GHz (4GHz effective) GDDR5 memory.
Manufacturer ATI
UK amount (as reviewed) Around £150 (inc VAT)
US amount (as reviewed) Around $200 (exc tax)
