ATI Radeon HD 6000 Series ''Southern Islands'' Graphics Cards For Sale from November
Come this Winter, and things will heat up once again in the graphics card industry, with GPU vendors battling it out for the crucial Holidays shopping season. While AMD did not introduce any new GPUs after completing its ATI Radeon HD 5000 series launch itinerary, it did manage to grab significant amount of sales from its graphics rival NVIDIA. For this Winter, AMD and its partners will be in a position to launch the ATI Radeon HD 6000 series graphics processors, according to DigiTimes, citing sources from graphics card vendors.

It is also said that the Radeon HD 6000 series, codenamed "Southern Islands" (members of which are codenamed after islands in the Mediterranean Sea), will be built on TSMC's 40 nm manufacturing process. AMD had originally planned to build Southern Islands on TSMC's 32 nm process, but with the foundry skipping 32 nm bulk for 28 nm which will start operations only by the end of the year, AMD redrew its plans and stuck to the now-mature (stable) 40 nm process. Perhaps AMD learned a thing or two from a wide range of teething problems that plagued the 40 nm production line.

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my 5000series gc price sure drop kawkaw.. y so fast?...

I think so. 512bit Buswidth and 2GB GDDR5 VRAM and DirectX 11.1.
The 2GB VRAM should able to fully utilized for this series due to newer POWAH!!! YEAH! DirectX 11.1 is purely useless. LOL.

if the 6 series doubled the performance..
5 series sure goes cheap..
lol my 4 series become lower-end... there goes sub rm1k stuff..

Radeon HD6800 seems to be pretty long. I doubt it's same length as Radeon HD5850 and Radeon HD5870 respectively.

I can't imagine if Radeon HD6900 is even longer. OMG.

To FLASH BIOS of a GPU, it carries risks definitely.
If you want to play safe, I recommend you to use MSI Afterburner to OC your GPU. It allows you to OC heavily even without flashing the BIOS to ASUS's(not as gay as MSI) or MSI's(heaviest OC available).