AMD released three Radeon cards to OEMS based on Turks and Caicos GPUs.
Although AMD hasn’t announced anything official, the company is reportedly now offering three new Radeon HD 6000 cards to OEMS only, two based on the “Turks” GPU and the third based on the “Caicos” GPU.
According to the report, AMD’s 40-nm Turks mid-level GPU uses 480 VLIW5 stream processors, a 128-bit GDDR5 memory controller, and offers support for DirectX 11 and DDR3 on lower SKUs. Turks is available on two OEM cards i.e Radeon HD 6670 and Radeon HD 6570.
As for AMD’s entry-level Caicos GPU, it serves as a step up from an integrated graphics processor, packing 160 VLIW5 stream processors and a 64-bit memory controller supporting GDDR5 and DDR3. This GPU is used on the Radeon HD 6450 .
As previously stated, currently all three cards are available only to OEMs. However, all three are expected to filter through the retail channels within the coming weeks, so stay tuned for release dates and pricing.
