The star of the AMD Radeon 6000 series is the HD 6970, now available in India, and does battle with the GeForce GTX 570 and GeForce GTX 480 graphics cards from Nvidia's stable. Both sides now have graphics cards officially available out in the market, available for the end-user. Asus, MSI and Zotac are some of the brands that already offer products from one or both sides (as AMD and Nvidia are rivals in discreet 3D graphics cards).
Performing approximately around the same levels, the AMD Radeon HD 6970, and the GeForce GTX 570 / GTX 480 are also priced pretty much around the same price point at retail - Rs. 24,000 excluding taxes. Whichever side manages to drop pricing due to competition among brands, will have a better shot at gaining market-share. Of course, the generous memory onboard the Radeon 6970 (2GB) versus that on the GeForce GTX 570 (1280 MB) also helps.
As happened with the previous generation, AMD is seemingly not targeting the absolute performance peak with a single-GPU graphics card. That duty would fall to the Radeon HD 6990, which presumably would be a dual-GPU graphics card with two Radeon 6950 GPUs cross-fired internally. In the Radeon 5000 series line-up, the peak was occupied by the dual-GPU Radeon 5970.
For now, Nvidia still owns the peak performance in consumer-level graphics cards, with its GeForce GTX 580. The Radeon HD 6850 turned out to perform a lot like a Radeon 5850 flying in "hold mode" and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 turned out to be a strong opposition contender. So those who want a high-end graphics card from AMD would need to look at the Radeon 6900 series. Stay tuned for a review of the AMD Radeon 6970, from us at PCW India
Performing approximately around the same levels, the AMD Radeon HD 6970, and the GeForce GTX 570 / GTX 480 are also priced pretty much around the same price point at retail - Rs. 24,000 excluding taxes. Whichever side manages to drop pricing due to competition among brands, will have a better shot at gaining market-share. Of course, the generous memory onboard the Radeon 6970 (2GB) versus that on the GeForce GTX 570 (1280 MB) also helps.
As happened with the previous generation, AMD is seemingly not targeting the absolute performance peak with a single-GPU graphics card. That duty would fall to the Radeon HD 6990, which presumably would be a dual-GPU graphics card with two Radeon 6950 GPUs cross-fired internally. In the Radeon 5000 series line-up, the peak was occupied by the dual-GPU Radeon 5970.
For now, Nvidia still owns the peak performance in consumer-level graphics cards, with its GeForce GTX 580. The Radeon HD 6850 turned out to perform a lot like a Radeon 5850 flying in "hold mode" and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 turned out to be a strong opposition contender. So those who want a high-end graphics card from AMD would need to look at the Radeon 6900 series. Stay tuned for a review of the AMD Radeon 6970, from us at PCW India
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