HardOCP 6990 sneak peak

[stulid]

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/02/26/amd_radeon_hd_6990_antilles_sneek_peek

 

[Phatzy]

Rather long card i must say.

 

[JamesU2005]

No FPS

 

[stulid]

No FPS

They do comment things like

On the Radeon HD 6970 Dragon Age II at 5760x1200 was noticeably slower than the Radeon HD 6990. What we saw proved that both GPUs on the Radeon HD 6990 were accelerating this game "properly."

so nearly twice?

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Sounds good!

 

[arc@css]

Does sound encouraging.

 

[cammy5477]

mmmmmmm.sounds very tastey

 

[WingZero30]

I am sure if some one can scale the photo then the rough length estimation can be measured. It does seem to be longer than 5970.

 

[stulid]

Meh, so my paint skilzz are crap.

i am sure a more accurate comparison will turn up sooner or later.

 

[Its_Me]

That stock cooler system will have to run flat out at full load, its going to be crazy for noise.

 

[TaKeN]

Nom Nom

 

[WingZero30]

So it may well be as long as 5970.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

That stock cooler system will have to run flat out at full load, its going to be crazy for noise.

As long as it also gives crazy FPS then I will be happy

 

[drunkenmaster]

That stock cooler system will have to run flat out at full load, its going to be crazy for noise.

http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTI1ODQ5OTg1NkJiV3FOdkVhR1JfMV85X2wuanBn


You may notice, the older x2/5970 cards had the gpu's fairly close, you can see from the picture on the back that the gpu's are separately by a much bigger gap, you can't see the stock cooler so can't comment on its noise but I'd say the likelyhood is the fan will be mounted in the middle which will improve temps dramatically/decrease noise vs the 5970.

Personally I would hope they go triple slot on this one and a proper fan and not a blower, in which case quiet and cool wouldn't be an issue, if they went with the Gainward style phantom setup they could do it under triple slot, considering it won't allow for anything more than 2 6990's in a system, anyone that can afford 2x6990's can also afford a top end mobo and case which can handle a triple slot cooler with ease.

THe problem, 5870 coolers work on 6870/6970's, a 5970 cooler ain't going to work on a 6990 so it will take a while for 3rd party cooling and probably mean AIB's will take longer than usual to offer good alternative versions, though maybe thats part of the reason for the delay, to allow Asus/Sapphire/Gigabyte to get new versions of the improved coolers done.

 

[Garee]

Isn't DX11 mode broken in the Dragon Age Demo? I was getting terrible FPS with it enabled and therefore don't understand why they used it as a performance benchmark.

 

[gropingmantis]

That stock cooler system will have to run flat out at full load, its going to be crazy for noise.

This will most likely be true. It shouldn't be too long before there are aftermarket coolers for it though.

I wanna see FPS results nao *stamps foot*

 

[Aedus]

This will most likely be true. It shouldn't be too long before there are aftermarket coolers for it though.

I wanna see FPS results nao *stamps foot*

You'll get those mid march, when Nvidia releases their 590

 

[easyrider]

Pricing ?

About 400?

 

[stulid]

Pricing ?

About 400?

You can bet on it.

 

[JediFragger]

I'm guessing £450-£500 here, more towards the latter on launch