AMD HD 6990 (Photos!!)

[Nintendork]

reminds me old VHS cassettes

Your sig is training in anticipation xD.

[antiacid]

get the EK people on the phone, they need to start making some waterblocks for this baby!

[bro20000]

Looking forward for 6990 to come out my next card! looks like 580Gtx will have to be sold!6990 crossfire come on!

[Lanek]

get the EK people on the phone, they need to start making some waterblocks for this baby!

He try to rest after CES XS Party ... no phone for again a week.

I like how look this card, just black, red...

[KoHaN69]

Yeah, the fan is in the middle. Ensures both chips get fresh air. Downside it, half of the heat gets dumped back into the case. :S

I don't think that blows out, the is perpendicular, and sucks air from the power connector end of card, as well as bottom

[skeyo]

I hope this doesn't turn up to be 2x8pin tea heater.

[Nintendork]

It's the top end, you should expect that specially when it's done at the same 40nm as the 5970.

[lkiller123]

That thing looks exactly like a VHS tape!!

[STEvil]

I don't think that blows out, the is perpendicular, and sucks air from the power connector end of card, as well as bottom

um, no.

[SubZero.it]

guys the fan in the middle look here



like XFX HD 5970 Black Edition Limited

Not that much of a good option...

[Neova]

Wonder if it will unlock?

[RaV666]

It will probably have full set of SPs, so nothing to unlock.

[saaya]

sorry, excuse my bluntness, but whats the point of a 6990?
quad 6970 will be much faster, probably even 6950s in tri xfire...
its not going to cost less than 700$, so it will have worse price perf than xfire or quad xfire as well...
and even if it WOULD cost less than 700, thats only justified as its slower than 2 350$ 6970s...
its going to run hotter than 2 cards in sli as well...

really, i dont get it, whats the point?
its pure marketing of claiming the "fastest card" which nobody cares about except for whoever happens to have the "fastest card" at the point in time, isnt it?

[RaZz!]

sorry, excuse my bluntness, but whats the point of a 6990?
quad 6970 will be much faster, probably even 6950s in tri xfire...
its not going to cost less than 700$, so it will have worse price perf than xfire or quad xfire as well...
and even if it WOULD cost less than 700, thats only justified as its slower than 2 350$ 6970s...
its going to run hotter than 2 cards in sli as well...

really, i dont get it, whats the point?
its pure marketing of claiming the "fastest card" which nobody cares about except for whoever happens to have the "fastest card" at the point in time, isnt it?

just one question: why not? it'll have its benefits and since there have always been people who bought dual-gpu cards its existence is more than justified.

supply and demand. if there was no demand, dual-gpu cards would be dead already.

[saaya]

just one question: why not? it'll have its benefits and since there have always been people who bought dual-gpu cards its existence is more than justified.

supply and demand. if there was no demand, dual-gpu cards would be dead already.

why not?
well then why not make a 5gpu vga even though only 4 can be used in xfire?
why not make a dual gpu card and have the second gpu not connected to a bridge chip, its just eating power and producing heat

come on man, you can just throw out a product on the market hoping that some people will buy it without realising its a pointless product to begin with

then again, ageias ppu worked out well, bigfoots killer nic worked out well... but those guys hypnotized people with PR, theres no 6990 pr whatsoever... so i doubt itll do well...

[saaya]

whoever wants max perf and not semi braindead is on a quad vga capable board already, so they will upgrade to 6970 or 6950 quad or switch to sli, why would anybody go 6990?

[RaV666]

Well, there are folks out there without even pciexpress 2.0 support.Arent there 1155/1156 sockets kinda limited in the pci express department too ?
And it will most likely consume less power than 2xfired 6850s.

[iboomalot]

water cooled will be my solution to heat and noise

This all depends on its speed and price.

[saaya]

Well, there are folks out there without even pciexpress 2.0 support.Arent there 1155/1156 sockets kinda limited in the pci express department too ?
And it will most likely consume less power than 2xfired 6850s.

yeah, people without even pciE 2.0 support are going to buy a 700$ dualgpu vga... :P

and whether you run one 6990 at 16x or two 6970s at 8x, the 6970s will still be faster... dual 6990 each running at 8x doesnt make sense, first of all you lose perf, and second, who saves 100$ on board+cpu when spending 1400$ on vgas? 0_o

and a 6990, a dual 6970, will consume less power than two 6850s?

and yeah, you can watercool two 6990, but you can do the same with 3 6950s, probably spend the same on watercooling, but pay less for the cards and get the same perf out of it...

[RaZz!]

why not?
well then why not make a 5gpu vga even though only 4 can be used in xfire?
why not make a dual gpu card and have the second gpu not connected to a bridge chip, its just eating power and producing heat

come on man, you can just throw out a product on the market hoping that some people will buy it without realising its a pointless product to begin with

then again, ageias ppu worked out well, bigfoots killer nic worked out well... but those guys hypnotized people with PR, theres no 6990 pr whatsoever... so i doubt itll do well...

because there is a breakeven point where producing and selling such a card let's a company make money on a product. furthermore there are things known as standards and form factors. a dual-gpu is the only thing you can do with the current standards.
e.g. a 4gpu card would cost too much to produce and be too clunky (dual pcb 3 slot graphics card anyone?) - nobody would buy it and amd (or whoever) wouldn't make any money on it at all.

[Sam_oslo]

AMD has to go forward with 6990, they have put a lot of prestige in it. they have delayed it once, and have no excuse to drop it now.
Fans are waiting for a mighty card, and that matters to a lot of loyal fans.

Besides, they have to do something to keep nVidia in shock from the top. They can't just sit and watch them to sweep the marked top down.

Most importantly, it batter be competitive, and come om time. We all need it for a price-break at high-end.

[kadozer]

Adding to the drawbacks already mentioned, for the consumer I don't see how this is a good choice over separate cards because of the cost. Unless they make it really competitive with msrp like $500. The last good dual gpu card to buy was the 4870x2 because places like BB sold it for $379.
Only 2 ideal scenarios I can think of to buy this over separate 6950/70 cards.

-Limited space on the motherboard and you really want to keep it.
-Small Case, limited space inside where the bottom 2nd card would run out of space to fit in.

I wish AMD would ditch the dual gpu card strategy already especially as gpu die sizes are now hitting the landmark 28nm and beyond.

[Apokalipse]

sorry, excuse my bluntness, but whats the point of a 6990?
quad 6970 will be much faster, probably even 6950s in tri xfire...

6990 is two GPU's. So I don't know why you're comparing them.

[cegras]

sorry, excuse my bluntness, but whats the point of a 6990?
quad 6970 will be much faster, probably even 6950s in tri xfire...
its not going to cost less than 700$, so it will have worse price perf than xfire or quad xfire as well...
and even if it WOULD cost less than 700, thats only justified as its slower than 2 350$ 6970s...
its going to run hotter than 2 cards in sli as well...

really, i dont get it, whats the point?
its pure marketing of claiming the "fastest card" which nobody cares about except for whoever happens to have the "fastest card" at the point in time, isnt it?

I would say that that actually is part of the whole exercise.

And usually these dual cards are priced a bit lower than if you bought two equivalent cards for crossfire. You end up saving space and money.

[Shadov]

sorry, excuse my bluntness, but whats the point of a 6990?
quad 6970 will be much faster, probably even 6950s in tri xfire...

AMD is just making something that Nvidia cant. With their smaller die strategy, taking into account PCI-E certification they wont go over 300W TDP and voila you have the fastest card on the market.