Dec 16, 2010 13:05 GMT  ·  By

After what can only be described as a long and agonizing wait, the Radeon HD 6900 graphics card series has finally made it out into the open, so manufacturers near and far are racing to get the very first custom designs out, Yeston being one of the companies that want to deliver such a solution with its in-house designed, 15-phase Radeon HD 6970.

Although there is still some time left until the board actually makes it to market, the very first pictures depicting the PCB appeared on the Expreview website.

As you can certainly see for yourself, the printed circuit board is painted blue and four Chinese characters are written right bellow the GPU, together with an English translation that reads “Game Master.”

Taking a closer look at Yeston's solution also reveals the 12-phase power delivery circuit that is placed on the right side of the board, this providing juice for the Cayman XT core.

Furthermore, three additional phases are placed right near the display connector area, two of these delivering power to the GDDR5 memory chips while the third is used for auxiliary power.

In the right upper corner, two 8-pin PCIe connectors are placed, beneath them Yeston cutting a hole for the fan to draw more cool air, a design decision that reminds me of Nvidia's GTX 480.

Moving to the backside of the GPU we find that Yeston has placed some of the MOSFETs over here, the two square markongs found right next to the metal-oxide transistors line probably designating the spot where a pair of decoupling capacitors should be installed.

Sadly, no other information is available at this time except from these PCB pictures, so we can't tell you how long it takes Yeston to release this graphics card to the market.

Furthermore, considering the boards seems to be still in an early stage of development, many things could change in the final version of the card.

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