ATi Radeon HD 6970 Engineering Sample pics and info :)

Hey all,

Here is something nice I thought about shopwing you all which I got from my ATi source @ Tweakers.net

A Slow Speed Alpha Board, these were the first made Engineering Samples of nthe HD 6970 VGA card which uses the ATi RV970 XT Cayman VPU.
http://www.abload.de/img/rv970xtcaymanalphaboarem44.jpg

TIBORRR is the Engineer for whom obtained the card and worked with it, just some labrat as most Engineers are called

Here some specs of this render beast, these scores are from an early Engineering Sample, they can only imporve with the retail models, which are far more fine tuned, so please do keep that in mind

Left GTX 480 right HD 6970.

RE5
101 / 109

F1 2010
56 / 68

3DMark11X
X1650 / X1798

3DMark11P
P5017 / P4939

Heaven2.1
687 / 644

I got this also from Tweakers.net over here:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1437904/7

The performance of the HD 6970 should be estimated between the GTX 480 and 580, but in soem good cases it can outperform the GTX 580 by a large margin, hereby also the HD 5970, these are all estimated performance indications of this VGA card, it's TDP is also 100watts lesser than that of a GTX 480, so for the people that have an 850 watt PSU, you won't have to worry to buy a bigger PSU, this is also something good to keep in mind.

ahhh niiice, maybe there might be a way to obtain that card hehe, I seek this card for my ATi Collection

I dunno if you could share him a word for me

Here some new pics I got from Tweakers.net of the avrerage performance of the Cayman cards compared to the GTX 470 and GTX 480

HD 6950 - GTX 470:
http://img5.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/72…55ca50437c3.jpg

HD 6970 - GTX 480:
http://img1.uploadhouse.com/fileuploads/72…d39c0d5cb12.jpg

got that from here:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_mes…194335#35194335

As Tweakers.net ATi Insider "The Mask" describes:
15% faster than GTX480 is GTX580 performance & 20% faster than GTX470 is GTX570 performance ! :lol:

This would be good for ATI Devision AMD

The 6990 has been delayed to January 2011,If I find out more on this monster aka Antillies I will post that here

All I did get from my ATi Informers is that the HD 6990 will be a Dual HD 6950 and not 6970, due to TDP rules, how ever this may create roo for a HD 6995, although this might be a limited run of 1000 pieces only by 3rd party vendors like ASUS< XFX or Sapphire, maybe MSI as well, but I have my doubts, ATI devision of AMD dropped the HD 6995 anyways, but I will leave this as an option in the open for the other teams.

HD 6970 will be a good improvement over HD 5870, here another benchmark I got from my reliable source from Gathering of Tweakers.net:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6498/comparep.jpg]

Dunno if this is real, got it from the same source:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/3373/benchq.jpg]

Source of the second link is from hardwarelux forum, but I found it on Tweakers.net like the previous pics and info's:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1437904/8

Here some pics of the Evaluation Board, one of the final test cards from the best last Engineering Sample batch for final test results, you could compare this type of prototype with a Voodoo5 6000 Rev.A 3700 + PCI Rework, as type of card would go,these are also called Dev and Final Pre-Production samples:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/008.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/007.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/006-1.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/005-1.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/004-1.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/003-1.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/002-1.jpg]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/001-2.jpg]

Ah well here a shot of a retail model from HIS, the HIS Radeon HD 6950
[Blockierte Grafik: http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/7383/69501.jpg]

and here the belgian prices of the Caymans:

HD 6970:
http://www.power4pc.be/webshop/grafis…02di2s2gd5.html

HD 6950:
http://www.power4pc.be/webshop/grafis…02di2s2gd5.html

Zitat von DungeonKeeper

Ahh, okay, thank you very much!

Norries mate and to make things clear; keep in mind those slides I posted are results of the SLow Speed Dev Board, the Retail and Evaluation boards will do a lot better, however the last results that show that a HD 6970 is avr 27% faster than a HD 5870 , these are results of the first Evaluation boards, so most likely these factors should be better when HD 6970 & HD 6950 go retail

The First Cayman Pyramid
[Blockierte Grafik: http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/7901/33046565.jpg]

Hehe yeah sure is Turri, heres something nice too though, a retail version of the Power Color Radeon HD 6970 2048MB 256Bit GDDR5
http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=…6970topnmjj.jpg http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=…970rearrmbc.jpg
http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=…0output2mw7.jpg http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=…0topsid7mzu.jpg

Source is not Gathering of Tweakers.net this time, but videocardz.com
http://videocardz.com/27974/powercol…d-6970-pictured

Here more from GoT a HD 6950 dismantled
http://tweakers.net/ext/f/6rxhKLqukl8cHrLXXvdDhNQx/full.jpg

Some HD 6970 Slides and info:
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2010/12/1…0-unveiled.aspx

Performance of a GTX 570 versus HD 6970, as these have the same 400USD price range, this is the reason why they have been competed head to head
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i53.tinypic.com/2r5atkm.jpg]

2x HD 6970 in 2-Way CFX tested with Cat 10.11 WHQL with Heaven 2.1:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/9099/heaveny.png]

Source:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18217424

3D Mark Vantage Perlin Noise with HD 6950:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i54.tinypic.com/1zqaurt.jpg]

Source Nelis from GoT/MSI:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_mes…200207#35200207

Colorpc.com HD 6950 & HD 6970
[Blockierte Grafik: http://home.coolpc.com.tw/upon/vga/amd69…-hd6950-3-1.jpg]

Sub Source:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_mes…202720#35202720

Main Source:
http://www.coolpc.com.tw/phpBB2/viewtop…=276669#p276669

That Photo was posted by The Mask, he never posts photoshop made stuff in serious ATi topics such as the one where I got that pic from, an Ati news / Discussion topic that has lasted more that 10 years @ Tweakers.net

They are real, it's a Tawainese brand, hence the amount of colors they have and the mainsource where it came from

Maybe I should ask Teh mask for more pics then eh ?

Like I said The mask never posts fake stuff, he never has heh, the ATi topic where I got it from only had facts within it's self, it's not photoshop unless you can prove it
He works for ATI Devision AMD Europe, he also owns several Engienering samplesinclusing the HD 6970 and HD 6950 for further research:
http://tweakers.net/gallery/240280/fotoalbum

The Mask only posts real things he also has many contacts in Taiwain, they sent him that photo, they are real, sorry DK

Anyways here's something new

OcUK has all of these 149 HIS HD 6900 cards, a mega Pyramid and Oc UK in Raddy lang
http://www.abload.de/img/hisocuktf31.jpg

OcUK has 500+ 6970's & 1000+ 6950's in stock. This would be a good indication to what most other webshops in the EU will have when the HD 6900 series launch.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18217697