14 DAY TRIAL // Chinese market watchers appear to be especially active lately, as they have managed to uncover not only a photo of an alleged high-end HD 6800 or 6900 board, but also that of what appears to be an AMD Radeon HD 6300 model.
Just on the trail of NVIDIA's release of mobile Fermi GPUs, ChipHell uncovered photos of what looks like AMD's upcoming video controllers.
The HD 6000 line will employ new Southern Islands GPU that will use the same manufacturing process technology as the HD 5000, only will have overall better specifications.
One of the pictures dealt with what may or may not be the ATI Radeon HD 6870 or HD 6970 high-end adapter, though no real specs or pricing details are available.
The new one, apparently, is a representation of a lower-end HD 6000 Series card, one part of the AMD Radeon HD 6300 Series to be exact.
Given that this line will succeed the HD 5300 series, it is quite obvious that it holds the low-end video card models based on the Southern Islands GPU.
In this case, the leak suggests that the Caicos GPU will be used, a processor built on the aforementioned 40nm manufacturing process.
The video board has a black PCB (printed circuit board) and uses a low profile form factor, hinting at its probable usage in HTPCs (home-theater personal computers) or mini PCs.
The photo also reveals a passive cooler, and the leak also hints at a DVI port, possible HDMI and 1GB of VRAM (DDR3), which operates on a memory interface of 64 bits.
As was the case with its higher-end sibling, no information exists, at this time, on the GPU, shader and memory clock speeds, nor on the TDP.
All that remains is to wait for another leak to emerge, hopefully containing actual performance numbers and, perhaps, pricing details.