It’s still a few days until AMD comes out with the new Radeons, but they’re cashing in on the rumors by slowly leaking out pictures of the cards. While you can’t get any details on performance, you can see some of the external features.
We note with glee that the default output arrangement includes no less than five ports, including two DVI, one HDMI (1.4a), and two Mini DisplayPorts. We’d rather the latter two were full-sized, but it doesn’t look like ATI AMD had the room to fit them in. As to power requirements, the HD 6870 will need two 6-pin connectors to augment the juice it gets from the PCI Express port, while the HD 6850 will sate its needs with just the one.
Engadget has several more pictures at their site.
via AMD Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 officially pictured, coming this Friday — Engadget.
