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[Rumour] AMD Radeon HD 6000 is Northern Islands, availability on October 25th, more details
VR-Zone - September 06, 2010 00:58 AM
vr-zone.com - AMD’s next-generation family has long been referred to as "Southern Islands", a codename revealed by SemiAccurate back in March. The recent Catalyst 10.8 codenames had "NI" suffixes all over, suggesting that Southern Islands is Northern Islands after all. SemiAccurate themselves confirm that AMD’s upcoming Radeon HD 6000 is indeed Northern Islands. Instead, it is the 28nm part which we referred to as Northern Islands which is the real Southern Islands. But, what’s in a name? The codenames suggest "Caribbean Islands" would be a more appropriate name! More importantly, several details about the Radeon HD 6000 series is revealed. Read on for more details...
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