Personally, I am a huge fan of ATI's Evergreen family of chips since they still manage to offer top notch performance even now, almost a year after they were launched, but is time for ATI to move on since the competition hasn't remained idle, so rumors stating the next generation Barts chips will be launched this October sound pretty right to me.

Rumors regarding availability started to spread after ATI released the Catalyst 10.8 graphics driver that had the future HD 6000 series video card codenames included in one of its files.

The file included codenames for 10 different graphics processors and, after some digging, NordicHardware came with some details regarding Antilles', Caymen's and Barts' availability.

According to the same source, this three will be the main chips used in the future HD 6000 line, Barts being the first to see the light of day.

Scheduled for an October release, Barts will come in as a replacement for the current Juniper based cards (HD 5770 and HD 5750), while Caymen will replace Cypress in sometime in November.

Catalyst 10.8 lists 12 different Cayman versions, but only two of them seem destined for the gaming crowd, the rest featuring the GL prefix that most likely designates the FireGL line, ATI's professional series of video cards.

Last, but certainly not least, we have the Antilles graphics cards that are stated to be Hemlock's successor, so expect them to pack two Cayman GPUs on the same board, in a similar way to the HD 5970 did with Cypress.

This time, however, two Antilles models will be released and we can expect them to reach store shelves sometime this December.

No word on performance or architectural changes since our last report , but some increase in speed is expected alongside a lower energy consumption.

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