14 DAY TRIAL // Since the official specs of the future Radeon HD 6990 dual-GPU graphics card from AMD have already hit the web, we were quite convinced that its less-powerful too-range sibling, the HD 6970, would get the same treatment today, and sure enough, that's exactly the case, a leaked slide containing the most important specs the future graphics card will offer making its way online.
So, it seems that RumorPedia managed to get their hands on the respective slide, which details some of the Radeon 6970's tech specs, as well as the performance improvement we should expect compared to the AMD's Radeon HD 5870.
Built on the Cayman architecture and featuring a single GPU, the future HD 6970 will pack 1920 stream processors (versus just 1600 in the case of the 5870), accompanied by 96 texture units (just 80 in the 5800 series graphics card).
Furthermore, the same slide reveals the fact that the 6970 will feature an 160 GB/sec memory bandwidth, 30 SIMD engines and 2 polygons per clock, compared to 153.6 GB/sec, 20 SIMD engines and 1 polygon per clock, respectively, in the case of the 6870.
On the other hand, the leaked slide reveals the fact that the number of Z/Stencil ROPs and Color ROPs will be exactly the same in the case of both cards (128 and 32, respectively).
The future HD 6970 will also be quite impressive connectivity-wise, packing no less than 2 x DVI interfaces, 2 x mini DisplayPort interfaces and an HDMI port.
This is not the first time that some info on AMD's already delayed future graphics card has reached the Internet (we've also covered the original leak, as you can see here), but this time, we're pretty sure that the slide comes out of an official presentation, so it has a lot more weight behind it.