Earlier this week AMD launched the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards as their first next-generation offerings that belong to the “Northern Islands” family. A day later there was the Catalyst 10.10 Linux driver release from AMD that added support for these new “Barts” GPUs to their proprietary driver, but no open-source support has yet to be found…
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