AMD Radeon HD 6790 GPU Ready to emulate the Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Many people are now beginning to turn their attention to the camp Sunnyvale-based AMD. Wow, exactly what is going on there? Hm, maybe it relates to berhembusnya rumors about the existence of the Radeon HD 6790 GPU is now being prepared to compete with AMD's GTX 550 Ti's presence as a new mainstream solution made by Nvidia.

Radeon HD 6790 GPU itself is supposed to be the new GTX 550 Ti comes after the release, but who would have thought nothing is certain regard it. And so far there are only a few German sites (like Heise.de and Hardware Luxx) are discussing about this news.

Currently AMD HD 6850 graphics card can be purchased in the market at the price of $ 169.99, or about 1.7 million rupiah. But for those users who want a more budget-friendly solution, of course, would be to switch to AMD 5000 series graphics cards are older or even switch to a line of products made by Nvidia graphics card.

Although the price is made by Nvidia GTX 550 Ti has not been officially published, but many people who estimate the price range is in between the price of the GTX 460 768MB which cost $ 145.99 (about 1.5 million dollars) and the price GTS 450 that cost $ 119.99 (about 1.2 million dollars).

Meanwhile, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti itself will soon be officially released by Nvidia on March 15 2011 that will come. Latest graphics cards made by Nvidia, the GF116-400 comes with a pack 192 cores CUDA cores, 32 texture units, 24 ROP units and memory bus with a capacity of 192 bits.

GPU clock is set to 900MHz, while the 1GB of GDDR5 memory speed 4100 MHz capable of providing a bandwidth of 70% compared to the GTS 450. On the other hand, the GTX 550 Ti has a TDP of only 116W voltage (10W lower than the GTS 450). This graphics card is equipped with two-way SLI support, two dual-link DVI-I ports and a mini HDMI port.

But unfortunately, so far has not revealed the details related to the specifications made by the presence of AMD Radeon HD 6790 is being prepared. Well, we'll wait!

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