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One word aptly describes AMD's latest Radeon HD 6800 series GPUs: refinement. AMD's goal was to drive cost and power consumption out of their architecture, along with enhancing its capabilities, features and image quality in next-generation DX11 gaming engines.

To that end we'd say the company has succeeded masterfully.

The AMD Radeon HD 6870 and Radeon HD 6850 will be released on Friday, October 22.

The latest rumor pins down a release date for AMD's newest cards, although we may not see a real jump in performance until a few months later.

Remember that snazzy dual-screen laptop prototype from Kohjinsha from about a month ago?

AMD executives said Wednesday that the company can't keep up with the demand for its high-end AMD Radeon HD 5800 and 5700 graphics cards.

When AMD shipped the Radeon HD 4890, they promised lots of overclocking headroom. Diamond and XFX take them up on it.

My main setup is using HDMI audio from a Radeon HD 4850 into a 42" LCD and it had no problems. Intel chipset with Realtek audio.

For it to work I had to DL the HDMI audio drivers. I tried finding some on the Via site but had no luck. Is this a driver issue or a hardware issue?

The motherboard says it has HD audio but it might not have the right kind. Anyone have any ideas on how to get this working?

Phoronix: "While the open-source 3D support is still emerging for the Radeon HD 2000, 3000, and 4000 series, AMD has released some more documentation.

This time around they have a programming guide for those developers interested in understanding the latest ATI GPUs."

Thanks to a new 40nm manufacturing process and GDDR5, ATI manages to bring a lot of performance to the sub-$100 price point.

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