With the release of the Radeon HD 6800 series, the next step for AMD is the higher-end Radeon HD 6900 series. It is reported that the Radeon HD 6970 codenamed Cayman XT has completed the sample and sent it to partners for evaluation and testing.
The Radeon HD 6970 will replace the Radeon HD 5870 and become a symbol of AMD's single-core flagship product. It is still based on the same core architecture of the Radeon HD 5000 series, but as with the Radeon HD 6800 series, unit modules such as stream processors and tessellation have also been enhanced, with antialiasing and anisotropic filtering, multiple display outputs, and video acceleration. Other related technologies have also been upgraded.
In terms of performance, Radeon HD 6970 is no accident will be much faster than Radeon HD 5870, no accident will exceed GeForce GTX 480, become the king of new single-core performance. Of course, GeForce GTX 580 is preparing to regain this throne, but it looks like it will wait until January or February next year.
The Radeon HD 6970's fellow brothers, code-named Radeon HD 6950, code-named Cayman Pro, are also in trial production and samples will be completed in the near future. Both are scheduled to be officially released on November 20.
In addition, the dual-core model Radeon HD 6990, code-named Antilles, will replace the existing Radeon HD 5970 and will once again be the fastest graphics card on the planet, and it seems that for a time it will be difficult to shake up its status.