AMD prepare Radeon HD 6930 to compete NVIDIA GTX 560 Ti

With the recent launch of the GTX 560 Ti with 448 cores, NVIDIA managed to provide an option for you who are looking for a graphics card with great performance but at a fair price. Because not to be outdone by its competitor AMD also reportedly plans to release a GPU Radeon HD 6930 to face this new competitor.

Just like Nvidia has done with the GTX 560 448 core Ti, AMD also plans to use the cut version of the most powerful GPU in existence, the Cayman graphics core, for the latest cards. However, unlike the older brother who already use the Cayman architecture, the Radeon HD 6930 will use what is called the Cayman LUXX Hardware according to CE 1280 GPU stream processor will use only. This decrease is quite significant when compared with 1536 stream processors found on the HD 6970.

A number of stream processor cores will be paired along with 80 texture units, 32 ROP units, and 256-bit memory interface is the same, which can be connected to a 1GB or 2GB of GDDR5 memory.

Same with the specifications of the number of processor cores, the clock frequency of the Radeon HD 6930 will also be reduced compared with the brothers who are older. This means that the GPU will work at 750MHz, while the memory will run at 1.2GHz (4800MHz data rate).

Just like Nvidia solution was recently launched, the Radeon HD 6930 will not come with the reference design from AMD, so the graphics card makers are expected to use cooling and PCB solutions are developed for the HD 6950.

We can expect the new card is present in mid-December with prices roughly in the range of USD 180-200.

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