14 DAY TRIAL // Quietly launched just a few weeks ago in the OEM market, AMD's new graphics cards built on top of the Turks and Caicos GPUs have started to show up in various retails systems as a large number of original equipments manufacturers launched desktop which feature AMD's second generation DirectX 11 graphics cores.
The Turks core is used in the Radeon HD 6670 and the Radeon HD 6570 graphics cards, both of these solutions packing 480 stream processors, 24 texturing units, 32 Z/Stencil ROPs, 8 color ROP units, as well as a 128-bit memory interface.
Radeon HD 6670 cards run at 800MHz and can be configured with either 512MB or 1GB of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1000MHz (4GHz effective) while HD 6570 based models have a core frequency of 650MHz and are available with anything in between 512MB and 2GB of DDR3 or GDDR5 video buffer.
The Radeon HD 6450 is the only AMD graphics card model based on the Caicos core and features 160 stream processors, 8 texturing units, 16 Z/Stencil ROP units and 4 color ROP units.
All the three models carry AMD's new UVD 3 media engine that brings Blu-ray 3D playback, as well as some other improvements over UVD 2.
“Today more than ever, users’ computing experiences need to be visually appealing, supporting compelling HD content and unparalleled realism in games,” said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, GPU Division, AMD.
“In response, PC makers are including AMD Radeon HD 6450, AMD Radeon HD 6570 and AMD Radeon HD 6670 graphics cards in their latest desktop designs.
“With AMD Radeon graphics, including the industry’s only second generation of DirectX 11-capable graphics and AMD Eyefinity technology, customers know they are getting the uncompromising premium experience they deserve,” concluded the company's rep.
Dell, one of AMD's main partners, has already announced that the their OptiPlex series of desktops is now available with the Radeon HD 6670 graphics cards.