First off I don’t know much about GPU stuff but I’ll still cover it, at the end of the article I’ll link to other sources with more detailed reporting.
Yesterday AMD held an announcement event where the detailed their new lineup of 6000 Series GPUs. 6000 Series has a bunch of new features Nvidia’s previous generation had and some new ones.
The new GPUs are built on AMD’s 7nm process and will support Microsoft’s Direct Storage API. They also announced that the new gen GPUs will also have some fancy interfacing features with AMD GPUs.
Specs
| 6800 | 6800 XT | 6900 XT | |
| # of compute units | 60 | 72 | 80 |
| Game Clock | 1815 MHz | 2015 MHz | 2815 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2105 MHz | 2250 MHz | 2250 MHz |
| Infinity Cache | 128 MB | 128 MB | 128 MB |
| VRAM | 16GB | 16GB | 16GB |
| Power Usage | 250 Watt | 300 Watt | 300 Watt |
| Price & Release Date | Nov 18 | $579 | Nov 18 | $649 | Dec 8 | $999 |
Links
| AMD Event Video | Paul’s Hardware Video |
| JayzTwoCents (Video) | Gamer’s Nexus (Video) |
| PC Perspective (Article) | Verge Article |
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