Radeon HD 6000 series is Northern Island(NI) not Southern Island(SI)

source: SemiAccurate :: What is AMD's Northern Islands?

 

Pfft...AMD.

I personally can't see the 6000 series being all that good really. It will probably take off for a couple of weeks, die down, and then NVIDIA will falcon punch them into the mud just like they did to the 5000 series with Fermi.

 

They are the masters of the lightning-quick 8 month response.

 

Wait for the next gen consoles to get released. The desktop generation of video card that get released after the ps4 and new xbox come out will probably be more....excitings.

 

Hey man, they've gotten their act together. Expect GeForce 580 by February. I can't say more because I'm bound by a DNR.

 

Wait, when did that happen ?

I'm fine with 6000 series / SI / NI / <what the hell is its name>. There's plenty of talk about it not being the real thing because AMD/ATI is gonna save the whole new design for 28nm & what will probably be the 7000s but I just remember the semi-fail of many series launched in the past few years (thinking ATI 2000s, nvidia geforce 8000 in a way & GT4xx) that were based on a new architecture and it makes me think it's hard to get everything right from the beginning. Here there aren't many unknown spots, it's going to perform maybe not tremendously faster than its predecessor, but enough that it's noticeable.

 

Sarcasm.

Do not resuscitate?

 

Wow..I think most of this thread is sarcasm...but I cant tell for sure!

 

Oh you...

I'm not being sarcastic. I admit it, I'm a self confessed NVIDIA fanboy, but I'm actually being very serious.

 

I can not wait until 2013.

 

Haha, superb!

You do sound like a fanboy of the Greens.
By mid August 2009 I already had a notebook with 280M SLI (M17X-R1). Now it's September 2010 and x7200 is still in the works, realistically, the first owners will appear by mid October -> 14 months later.
In those 14 months AMD was having a total domination - 4870's were very close to 285M's in gaming/benching performance and the 5870's been reigning for 8-9 months.
I don't see any Fermi, other than a couple of Clevo's with a single 480M and a Asus with a single 460M (no owners yet) and a very small performance increase (down to 0% in DX10/9) in DX11 compared to a year old tech, not to mention that a single 480M costs 3X the price of a 5870.
But good luck hunting AMD down with Fermi

 

Btw it seems like we wont get to play on the next generation consoles by Microsoft, Nintendo or Sony since the world ends in 2012.

 

that's quite possible (regardless of the Mayan calendar).

 

Nope. Don't Not Reveal.

Although for Nvidia it should be Do Not Rebadge.

 

Your serious about the 5870 still holding the benchmarking records 1-2 months after the 480's release, and serious how the 5870 still performs better then the 480 in dx10 games? I guess I must've missed the falcon punch there.

 

i really don't care what the 6000 series is.. Northern Islands or Southern Islands as long as they thrash ferni..

 

Half these posts really don't add anything to the conversation, nVidia vs. AMD, PC vs. Mac... blah blah blah. Either way, the 6xxxM series will probably take another month minimum to show up in consumer's hands after their (soft) launch.

 

It's very likely that the PS4 and next Xbox will not be using graphics hardware on par with what will considered high end for PCs.

 

Mind providing me a link to these benchmarks? From what I have seen, the GTX 480M has been up to 20% better in 95% of DX10 games, and up to 40% better in DX11 games.