AMD Radeon HD 6970 benchmark numbers leaked?

AMD might have just launched the new Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 graphics cards a week ago, but many are already looking forward to the company's real high-end offering: the Cayman-based Radeon HD 6970. We don’t expect the new cards to hit stores until sometime next month, but Chinese-language site Zol.com claims to have got its hands on a sample and has posted some benchmark results for the world to see.

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looks good

the market is on fire new card every few weeks

to be honest the 6870 is already a hit performance vs price

Now the question is much much is this going to retail for?

It's exciting how ATI and Nvidia keep turning out quality cards, but my HD4890 is already starting to look really slow. Sign me up for one!

i might actually switch over to radeon for a change

'with the Radeon HD 6970 allegedly scoring 23,499 on the first one while delivering 36.6fps on the Unigine benchmark running at 1920 x 1,080 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering.' ...Without consuming a nuclear power plant and heating more than a volcano in eruption

Let's hope so

How is it all these video card leaks are coming from China? Same thing with the two 460 GPU card mentioned the other day.

The 6970 looks great if it can deliver on the performance side without killing everyone's PSU. I personally would love to have one of these bad boys. i would have thought that the 6970 would have been 30% faster than the 5870 to make it a worth while upgrade for most people looks like the 7000 series are going to be the next big thing from AMD.

Cause videocards are manufactured there... So they have early access to products...

ATI has definitely stepped up it's competition in the last year or two. Prior to that I didn't even consider purchasing an ATI card.

looks pretty good but ill wait until i see some ingame stats. I wonder how much it gonna cost

"the company's real high-end offering"

Technically, the Cayman is a replacement for the 5870. The 'Real' high end offering is the Monster 'Antilles' supposedly due for an early December release.

I think they might have to have to recreate a new way to liquid cool. I won't say anything official till the official specs come out.

Nice card. I wonder how i will compare to the new GTX 580

I'm surprised at how well my 9800GTX+ has kept up with the times, but looking at this, I may have to upgrade sometime this year

Seeing as how the 6850/6870 Is such a vast improvement over its REAL predecessor (the 5770), I'd say this is entirely possible, and more.

This means that there's going to be a 6950 as well... right? :3 Somehow just looking at the numbers gets me off xD

OH, and its about time AMD gave a beating back to nVidia anyway. Team green has been too complacent, sitting back on their recliners, getting shiatsu massages while drinking whiskey, talking about good times haha

My HD 4850 looks like a baby now, im rellay really getting deperate waiting for Xmast.

Any guess on how much will it cost?

The numbers are indeed impressive. I wonder what the performance/watt is.