the Texas skier has not yet given the explanation for this sudden decline, one of the reasons may be linked to the will inflate the chip sales, but also, and as at each end of summer / re-entry of classes, various promotions arrive on the territory. Can already be found of HD6850 to less than €120. In addition to Atlantic, the least expensive of the HD 6850 is still at a rate of $ 154,99 €110 approximately.
One of the other reasons would be that the skier prepares the arrival of its new line of GPU in 28nm HKMG (High-K Metal Gate) technology, giving rise to graphics cards based on Southern Islands for bullets of Office-based Krishna and Wichita for the APU.
Reminder, 6850 HD was left in the second half of 2010 at the same time as the HD 6870 and these cards were the first HD 6000 series, the GPU was based on a Pro Barts with 960 processor flow, 48 units of textures, 32 units ROP using 256bits bus. For frequencies were 775 MHz for the GPU and 1 GHz for the 1024MB GDDR5.
Three GPU should result from the new Southern Islands architecture: Lombok, Thames and Tahiti. The first will be for the Radeon HD 7670 and HD 7650. the second for HD 7870, HD 7850 and HD 7790 and finally the third which will include the other HD 7000 using the PCI Express 3.0 interface.
Remains fondeur TSMC has problems with the High-K Metal Gate and not slow down production, AMD has chosen to use a 28 nm HPL engraving, based on a High-k Metal Gate technology but more low-power, Nvidia may catch up with the backlog of its future GPU Kepler...
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