Specs for AMD’s Radeon HD 6750 and HD 6770 Leaked

Launches of fresh GPU line-ups aren’t uncommon, and most often, both AMD and NVIDIA deliver such a thing at least once every year to a year-and-a-half. But the upcoming launch from AMD holds a ton of promise, and might well be one of the most impressive GPU launches we’ve ever witnessed. Well, as long as the rumored specs hold true, along with speculated performance.

Chinese site PCINLIFE has acquired a slide from what looks like an AMD presentation (it looks legit) that shows off the specs of the upcoming HD 6750 and HD 6770 graphics cards. It’s been known for a while that AMD is going in a slightly different direction with this launch by releasing the mid-range cards first, and when we look at the prospective specifications, it might be easy to understand why.

According to these slides, the HD 6770 looks to be as powerful – if not more so – than the HD 5870. You read that right… the upcoming AMD mid-range might surpass the last-gen high-end. Both of those cards feature 320 processing cores, with the latter having a bumped up core clock and slightly degraded memory clock. Compute performance is set to be about 18% slower on the HD 6770 than the HD 5870.

At the same time, texture fillrates also see a decrease, but the pixels fillrate and z buffers both see a healthy increase. Just like the HD 5870, the upcoming HD 6000 cards are both built on a 40nm process. There are hopes that the power consumption is going to be even more impressive on the upcoming series than the last, and that to me is awesome, given how effective the HD 5000 cards have been in that regard.

There are of course many architecture changes with the HD 6000 series as well, but based on these specs alone, the potential performance is going to be worth getting excited over, and again, it’s becoming clearer why AMD wants to release its mid-range parts first. Whether or not these first launched cards will be priced as the HD 5770 and HD 5750 were when they were first launched won’t be known until the release actually happens. We can sure hope.