PowerColor dual Barts/HD6870 spotted
Headache time for dual 560 designers
May 8, 2011 in Channel, Desktop, Gaming, Graphics, Rumors
It looks like PowerColor is going to be the first out of the gate with a dual ATI 68xx/Barts card, and it does look tasty. It looks like the Nvidia dual GF114 card is going to have some serious competition.
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It isn’t going to give 6990 owners heartburn, but depending on where the final clocks are set, this little beastie is going give a lot of cards some serious price/performance headaches. 6870s are already an amazing deal, with a recent round of rebates dropping cards below the $180 mark, including a copy of Shogun.
The new card, as yet unnamed, has 1GB GDDR5 per card, you can see that much from the pictures. PowerColor isn’t talking about the rest of the specs, but more is promised at Computex. Looking at the power setup, it has 2 8-pin PCIe connectors, meaning a lot of juice on tap. That says ‘serious overclocker’, and since it is a custom PCB, it is likely to live up to that reputation. At worst, you can expect it to not blow up under normal use like certain other lines.
If PowerColor can keep the price at or below that of two 6870s, they look to have a killer part on their hands. The dual Barts chips should slap a 6970 around for only a bit more cash, and seriously undercut the dual GF114 coming in Q3. All we need now is a watercooled version with 8-way Crossfire drivers and…..S|A
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“Serious Overclocker” hmm i wonder if the TDP can actually be pushed any further…. Radeon HD 6970 250W (PowerTune +20%)
Problem is that SLI actually works soooo not going to be that competitive really.
1gig also.
Currently CF works better, and 1GB is fine for 1080 gaming at the mo.
nope.avi on that one, SLI can be configured quickly and easily from the nvidia ctrl panel with individual game profiles.
-I have some games running with no SLI (older titles)
-Some with adaptive power saving off, or a specific setting (AFR etc)
-Rest running standard settings
I am also outputting from my 3rd GPU instead of 1st (for thermal reasons). I am not sure if you can even do this on Ati cards.
This kind of granularity and control is a MUST for multi-card systems.
SLI is also more compatible games in general. Negative crossfire scaling anyone?
While the SLI drivers might have better features, CrossFire scales better on the 6900s than SLI does on any GTX500 pair/trio. Almost any CF/SLI review will tell you this. A pair of 6970s comes close to two GTX 580s and three 6970s beat three GTX 580s in most high-res tests. Also, CF can run on an HD 6990 + HD 6970, giving 50% better performance on average than two GTX 580s for about the same price. As far as I know, you cannot run a GTX 590 in SLI with a GTX 580.
AMD is getting better with their drivers, and profiles are improving. As for CF performance scaling, it’s already much better than SLI scaling.
Ok, so not relative to Barts or a PowerColor, but Charlie, you are awesome! Be cool mate :)
Fake
Why FakeJensenHuang’s twitter feed has not been updated since October 2010? I like his twitter because his opinions always match about AMD. Even nVIDIA’s site, intelsinside.com was right on cheap compensation that AMD got from Intel.
http://www.intelsinsides.com/page/com_6.html
Lovely
Wait, that was NOT an april fools joke??? :O
It’s like we said in the forum thread. Energy efficient, pure win. The chip that a dual gpu card should actually be made of :) can’t wait for performance information!
Can’t wait for price information!
PowerColor is getting a lot of special treatments lately, is this due to their relationship with Sapphire?
I see PowerColor is slowly taking the role of EVGA as in the NVIDIA camp, all of those fancy custom solutions…
What relationship you’re talking about?