The latest video card from AMD, the Radeon 6970, is slated to be released on December 15th at midnight Eastern Standard Time, according to Fudzilla. According to the Overclockers UK forum, which itself links to a German forum, the Radeon 6970 has 1600 unified shaders, 32 Render Output Units (ROP), have 2 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 256-bit memory bus, with a memory bandwidth of 176 GB/sec. The pixel fill rate is 28.2 Gigapixels/sec, and the texture fillrate is 70.4 Gigatexels/sec. The GPU clock is running at 880 MHz, while the memory clock is running at 1.375 GHz. The graphics card comes with two DVI ports, two DisplayPorts, and one HDMI port.
The Radeon 6970 is AMD’s high-end, single-GPU card that is to compete against NVIDIA’s GTX 580. The Radeon 6970 is based on AMD’s “Cayman” graphics chip. Currently the Radeon 6970 scores lower than the NVIDIA GTX 580 in 3D Mark 11. However, that is an artificial benchmark and is not indicative of how it performs in real games. We will have to wait until it is released to see how it really performs.
