AMDs Radeon 6800 and 6900 Series graphics cards get price drops

AMD finalized its recalibrated product pricing of Radeon HD 6800 and Radeon HD 6900 series products in the wake of NVIDIA's launch of the GeForce GTX 560 Ti later today. NVIDIA's new GPU is expected to revive the green giant's competitiveness at a key sub-$300 price-point, which could destabilize AMD's SKUs in the price-proximity. Without many options left, AMD is setting the following new prices (prices in EUR and USD):

• Radeon HD 6870 1 GB: 189.99€, $219
  Radeon HD 6950 1 GB: 225.00€, $259
  Radeon HD 6950 2 GB: 239.99€, $269~289

The prices should be in effect very soon. Prices apart, AMD will also release a new driver that will bring about considerable performance improvements to all Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs.

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Its Official: AMD launches the Radeon HD 6950 1GB Graphics Card

Today was originally supposed to be about the newly released GeForce GTX 560 Ti – NVIDIA’s new GF114-based $250 video card. Much as was the case with the launch of AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 series however, AMD is itching to spoil NVIDIA’s launch with their own push. Furthermore they intend to do so on two fronts: directly above the GTX 560 Ti at $259 is the Radeon HD 6950 1GB, and somewhere below it one of many factory overclocked Radeon HD 6870 cards, in our case an XFX Radeon HD 6870 Black Edition. The Radeon HD 6950 1GB is effectively the GTX 560 Ti’s direct competition, while the overclocked 6870 serves to be the price spoiler.

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EVGA Showcases its Geforce based Dual GPU Monstrosity at CES 2011

EVGA showcased a new unnamed GPU based on Dual Geforce Based Chips at its CES 2011 booth. The company didn’t gave on any details on the card but its likely to be based on two of the current Geforce 500 Series chips which could either include the upcoming GTX 560 or the current GTX 570 chip.

One amazing thing which can be noticed in the pics is the Huge Custom Heatsink which the card will use which offers a Unique design and equipped with three cooling fans which cool the Aluminium array Heatsink below which is pretty much visible. The cooling may look quite alot but for a card which uses two 8 pin pci-e connectors it isn’t. So much power means that the total TDP will be around the 375W region making it one hell of a card in temps and performance. Of Course! The Extra Juice will allow room for more overclocking.

The bottom of the card has also been captured which reveals possible specs of the cards, It is supposed to feature a total of 1GB GDDR5 VRAM and holds two GPU cores, each with four memory chips. Dual Chips will make the card a bit longer than the current 500 Series Geforce cards. The card comes with 3 DVI ports making it 3D Surround Ready.

Nvidia is sure planning on something for the upcoming Dual Antilles based card from AMD and this might be its real competitor, Pricing and Availablty are not confirmed but more news to be out real soon.

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