14 DAY TRIAL // Now that AMD's Radeon HD 6900 release date is just a few days away, more and more information regarding the company's upcoming flagship single-GPU graphics card comes into the open on a daily basis, a German website already posting a video of what is supposedly the AMD Radeon HD 6950.
This latest development in the Cayman saga comes thanks to the German ATI-forum.de website that posted a short video showcasing a Radeon HD 6950 graphics card they received for testing.
Although the video has been taken down by now, at AMD's request, Chinese websites got a glimpse of the video and uploaded it on other video sharing channels, allowing us to take a closer look at AMD's upcoming creation.
As you can certainly see from the enclosed video, not many details are revealed about the Radeon HD 6950, ATI-forum promising a second part to come soon, although I doubt this will be the case now that AMD has stepped to the plate.
If you have been keeping up to date with the Radeon HD 6900 series, then you pretty much know the Cayman core will bring an impressive amount of architectural changes over Cypress, and even Barts, AMD going with a VLIW4 shader design as well as with dual tessellation units.
Furthermore, the Cayman GPUs will also feature a redesigned render back-end that should be up to twice as fast in 16-bit integer operations and two to four times faster in 32-bit floating point operations.
However, apart from its architecture, not so many details are known about the Radeon HD 6950, although its older brother had its entire specs list detailed just the other day.
As a result, we can assume the HD 6950 comes with the same 256-bit memory interface as the HD 6970, while it should pack less than 1536 ALU streaming processing units.
Fortunately, all of these mysteries will be revealed on December 15, when AMD decided to release its two new Cayman-core based graphics cards.