A AMD está lançando sua nova arquitetura de placas de vídeo Cayman… Eles estão lançando a XT Cayman e Cayman Pro,um chip sob a forma de a Radeon HD 6970 e a Radeon HD 6950…A Sapphire HD 6970 é uma placa que tem clock maior do que o modelo de referência,olhem voces mesmos:
* VLIW4 architecture
* 24 SIMDs
* 1536 SPs
* Dual Graphics engines
* 96 texture units
* upgraded back ends
* 256-bit memory interface
* 5.5Gbps memory speed
* VLIW4 thread processors
* 4-way co-issue
* All stream processing units have equal capabilities
* Special functions (transcendental) occupy 3 of 4 issue slots
* Dual-rate geometry setup
* off-chip geometry buffering
* 8th generation Tessellator
* Morphological AA
* Enhanced Quality AA
* Enhanced AF and Texture filtering
* AMD PowerTune Technology
* 40nm process
* 389mm2
* 2.64 billion transistors
* 880MHz Core clock
* 2.7 TeraFLOPS compute performance
* 84.5Gtexels/second texture Fillrate
* 32ROPs
* 28.2 Gigapixels/second pixel fill rate
* Z/Stencil ROPs 128
* 256-bit GDDR5 memory
* 176GB/s memory bandwidth
* 250W PowerTune maximum power
* 190W Typical gaming power
* 20W typical idle power
muito louca essa placa!!
