As the smaller process would have allowed ATI to decrease the cost per GPU die (while also potentially allowing higher clock speeds and lower power consumption), it couldn’t deliver a Barts GPU at the £100 to £130 price point it would have wanted. The crux of the problem was that TSMC, ATI’s fabrication partner, couldn’t deliver the 32nm manufacturing process that ATI had been betting on. Hopefully you’ve stayed with us, and not headed straight off to the forums to flame ATI’s marketing team – we say this because the new naming scheme does make sense, once you accept the situation that ATI was in. There will be a HD 6900 card in a month’s time, based around a faster GPU, with a dual-GPU HD 6900 also planned. While the HD 5800 was a high-end GPU, and HD 5900 denoted a dual-GPU card, the HD 6850 1GB and HD 6870 1GB are pitched at around £150 and £200 respectively.
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You can thank us for this kind consideration in the forums!Ī New Naming SchemeUnlike previous launches, the HD 6000-series opens with the mid-range Barts Pro and Barts XT GPU pairing, despite the historically high-end name. We’d advise this if you’ve already read our HD 6870 article from start to finish, as we’re only going to go over information that you already know. With the price cuts and specification reductions, the HD 6850 squares up against an Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1GB, and if you just want to find out how the card fares, you can skip to our Performance Analysis. The cheaper HD 6850 still retains a 256-bit memory interface, 32 ROPs and 1GB of GDDR5 memory even if those chips do run at 4GHz rather than 4.2GHz. However, the seemingly minor changes are actually quite significant – the HD 6850 drops two SIMD engines, or 160 stream processors, and 125MHz of frequency. While the HD 6860 is slated to drop into shops at £150, a hefty £50 less than the HD 6870 yet it’s based on the same fundamental architecture. Like the Sith, graphics cards tend to come in twos with a more a mighty card and a lesser, cheaper alternative – the HD 6850 is the Darth Maul to Palpatine’s HD 6870.
US price (as reviewed) Around $200 (exc tax) UK price (as reviewed) Around £150 (inc VAT) ATI Radeon HD 6850 1GB Review Manufacturer ATI
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