AMD Radeon HD 6990 - More details released

Greg0986 · 1 Feb 2011 at 11:37

The AMD Radeon HD 6990, likely to be one of the most powerful GPU’s released in the first Quarter of February, will have 2 Cayman GPU’s. The card also features 3072 stream processors and a nice 4GB of memory. They also use a dual 256-bit memory interface, allowing huge bandwidth.

Source and full story here:
http://www.eteknix.com/news/amd-radeon-hd-6990-more-details-released-721/

No flaming please

NZXT30 · 1 Feb 2011 at 11:58

in the first Quarter of January

Paul11 · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:00

Greg0986 said:
in the first Quarter of February

GJ02 · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:02

in the first Quarter of the First Quarter

NZXT30 · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:05

^^

Tute · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:06

in the first Quarter of the First Quarter of the First Half of the First Half of the First Third of The Year before the next

Greg0986 · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:07

He must have edited it, It was first Quarter of February when I checked it out :confused:

Paul11 · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:09

Greg0986 said:
He must have edited it, It was first Quarter of February when I checked it out

i think you mean first quarter of 2011

555BUK · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:13

That is an ugly card which from initial specs will not be much faster than the outgoing 5970.

[TW]Fox · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:13

No sources quoted and hilarious grammar mistakes, gotta love that site

NZXT30 · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:14

555BUK said:
That is an ugly card which from initial specs will not be much faster than the outgoing 5970.

No hotlinking!

Gerard · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:19

NZXT30 said:

He's a fanboy

Rroff · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:25

^^ Well its unlikely to be running the full 6970 clocks, tho it may be possible for the end user to push it that far, tho I'd have imagined it would be a little faster than the 5970 - tho possibly not worth the upgrade for anyone who already has 5970.

Judgeneo · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:27

It will be similar to the 6950 CF setups I reckon. Pretty quick.

Jibber55 · 1 Feb 2011 at 12:58

555BUK said:
That is an ugly card which from initial specs will not be much faster than the outgoing 5970.

Not sure how you have come to that conclusion, even if the cores ran @ 6950 speeds then it would be a pretty good jump in performance and I suspect they will OC well past 6950 speeds. It is f'ugly though.

J.D · 1 Feb 2011 at 22:53

Gerard said:
He's a fanboy

I wish I knew that before replying

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http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=18369853&postcount=9

Predicament · 3 Feb 2011 at 08:23

Rroff said:
^^ Well its unlikely to be running the full 6970 clocks, tho it may be possible for the end user to push it that far, tho I'd have imagined it would be a little faster than the 5970 - tho possibly not worth the upgrade for anyone who already has 5970.

Though DEFINITELY not worth the upgrade...

the 5970 eats through solid steel!

blackninja · 3 Feb 2011 at 08:46

Predicament said:
Though DEFINITELY not worth the upgrade FOR ME (that's me me me me me) ...

Fixed for you .....

Lived with both have you? Care to share your experience?

I had my 5970 for a year @ 950/1300 and I now have XFire 695(7)0s with 2GB per GPU ... no regrets thus far. In fact I may get one of these to pair with one of my current cards ...

milkinc13 · 3 Feb 2011 at 15:45

looks like a huge card, just awaiting the:
"spec me a case that's big enough for a HD6990"

MichaelM · 3 Feb 2011 at 16:37

Well we already know from people unlocking 6950's and downclocking to 6950 speeds that its slightly faster so we are looking at slightly better than 6950 CF performance expected.
It won't make much sense to me unless they target it at £450-£500 for at least the first month or 2 of release, unlikely but should be possible.