AMD will launch several different series of graphics cards based on the architecture Northern Islands this Fall, and the flagship will be Cayman XT. This circuit will replace Cypress in the high-end segment and we now have pictures that is said to depict Cayman XT.
The picture was published at Asian hardware site ChipHell but it doesn’t show much, other than it running in a test system. The image has been cropped, but shows both power and DVI cables plugged in.
The cooler is much alike the one found with Radeon HD 5000, which means it requies two slots. Beside an exhaust in I/O bracket we can identify two DVI connectors, one HDMI connector and two ports, which should mean support for up to five separate displays.
Other than that we have dual CrossFire connectors, which enables up to four cards in a CrossFireX configuration.
Cayman XT will be the most powerful graphics circuit of the Northern Islands family, but exactly which cards it will be on is uncertain. Radeon HD 6800 or Radeon HD 6900 series is what most rumors speak of, and with a refined DirectX 11 architecture and 40 nanometer technology AMD is exoected to reclaim the crown with the fastest GPU around.
If the picture published at ChipHell is genuine we can say for certain that it will look different at launch. The cooler has an ATI logo, which will disappear with the launch of AMD Radeon HD 6000. If this is a temporary sticker or a prototype cooler we don’t know.
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