Yes, It is really a monster, eats the competition for breakfast.
AMD has finally launched the "fastest single card" solution for desktop gamers, with 2x2GB = 4GB DDR5 memory on board, having 2 x 2.64 Billion transistors, this thing runs at 830 MHz core clock
Keep in mind that the Radeon 6990 is a dual GPU card and priced at 699$. The directX 11 capable card crunches through games and benchmarks with an average of 75-100% performance gain over the current market offerings including the “fastest single GPU card : nVidia 580GTX”.
For an Enthusiast, this is the best single card option available but for a Value gamer, There’s not a single available game in the market that is not playable at decent settings on a good single GPU e.g AMD ATI 5870, 6970, 6950, nVidia 560Ti, that is value for money.
Dual Bios Support:
The AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 graphics card features dual-BIOS capabilities. This feature is controlled by the Unlocking Switch, which toggles between the factory-supported Performance BIOS of 375W (BIOS1), and an Extreme Performance BIOS (BIOS2) that can potentially unlock higher clock speeds and up to 450W of mind-blowing performance!
Now, Who should / would Buy?
nVidia should feel the heat and release the eagerly awaited dual GPU Geforce 590 series.
Detailed Specs:
System Requirements:
AMD has finally launched the "fastest single card" solution for desktop gamers, with 2x2GB = 4GB DDR5 memory on board, having 2 x 2.64 Billion transistors, this thing runs at 830 MHz core clock
Keep in mind that the Radeon 6990 is a dual GPU card and priced at 699$. The directX 11 capable card crunches through games and benchmarks with an average of 75-100% performance gain over the current market offerings including the “fastest single GPU card : nVidia 580GTX”.
For an Enthusiast, this is the best single card option available but for a Value gamer, There’s not a single available game in the market that is not playable at decent settings on a good single GPU e.g AMD ATI 5870, 6970, 6950, nVidia 560Ti, that is value for money.
Dual Bios Support:
The AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 graphics card features dual-BIOS capabilities. This feature is controlled by the Unlocking Switch, which toggles between the factory-supported Performance BIOS of 375W (BIOS1), and an Extreme Performance BIOS (BIOS2) that can potentially unlock higher clock speeds and up to 450W of mind-blowing performance!
Performance Mode | Extreme Performance Mode | |
| Engine Clock | 830 MHz | 880 Mhz |
| Compute Performance | 5.10 TFLOPs | 5.40 TFLOPS |
| Texture Fill rate | 159.4 Gtex/s | 169 Gtex/s |
| Pixel Fill rate | 53.1 Gpix/s | 56.3 Gpix/s |
| Power consumption (gaming) | 375 W | 450W |
| Idle Power consumption | 37 W | 37W |
Now, Who should / would Buy?
- If you want an overkill system
- If you want to boast about your 3D Mark score…… for that 1 point increase xD
- If you want to Maxx out settings with 24x AA and 16x AF
- If you are playing games at a whooping 2560 x 1600 on Multiple displays aka Eyefinity
- If you want to be king of the hill
nVidia should feel the heat and release the eagerly awaited dual GPU Geforce 590 series.
Detailed Specs:
| Process | 40nm |
| Transistors | 2 x 2.64 billion |
| Stream Processors | 3072 |
| Texture Units | 192 |
| Color RoPs | 64 |
| Z/ Stencil ROPs | 128 |
| Memory | 4 GB DDR5 |
| Memory Interface | 2 x 256 Bit |
| Memory Clock | 1250MHz Memory Clock (5.0 Gbps GDDR5) |
| Memory Bandwidth | 320 GB/s memory bandwidth |
| Interface BUS | PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface |
- Full DirectX® 11 support
- Shader Model 5.0
- DirectCompute 11 support
- Quad advanced programmable hardware tessellation units
- OpenGL 4.1 support
- Open CL 1.1
- Stereoscopic 3D display/glasses support
- Native support for up to 5 simultaneous displays
- Up to 6 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport
- AMD CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology
- HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing
- Integrated HD audio controller
System Requirements:
- PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
- 750W Watt or greater power supply with two 150W 8-pin PCI Express® power connectors
- Minimum 1GB of system memory
- Installation software requires CD-ROM drive, a keyboard, a mouse, and a display
- For an AMD CrossFireX™ system, a second AMD Radeon™ HD 6990 Graphics card, an AMD CrossFireX™ Ready motherboard and one AMD CrossFireX™ Bridge Interconnect cable is required
- Use of 3 or more displays with AMD Eyefinity technology requires a DisplayPort-capable panel or an AMD Eyefinity validated dongle.
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