AMD HD 6990 (Photos!!)

[Heinz68]

@ HelixPC
The ATI drivers are at least as good as Nvidia drivers if you don't believe it just go check some of the Nvidia forums.

I think immature is to keep on trolling every AMD thread with the same nonsense how bad the AMD drivers are.

[Neova]

Speaking as a current Nvidia user who also have 2x 6950s unlocked, AMD/ATI drivers for the 6900 series is pretty good RIGHT NOW with the 11.1 series leaked drivers, which is practically the same as the 11.1 WHQL drivers being released in less than 24 hours. Most games - OpenGL, DX9, DX10 and DX11 that I've tested ran amazing fast, beautiful with graphics maxed settings ingame and ccc (control panel) and most importantly stable.

I was one of many unlucky 400 series owners whose card had crapped out in less than 3 months use (purchased in June 2010). Fixed now via RMA - bad memory module or related to it, but this drove me to pickup the 6900 series instead of going to the 500 series.

I would still say Nvidia has the upper hand in driver / feature support but AMD is getting much closer. There are still some game or game engine bugs they need to work on but at least they are working on it.

But when the 6990 card comes out, I'm sure AMD will offer a faster or more optimized driver for it to show its potential. Just like how the 500 series came out and had even more optimizations vs the initial 400 series drivers from the green team.

It is usually more stable to get the refresh than version 1.0 of a new architecture.

[cold2010]

"Radeon HD 6990" and said that they market to end the first quarter of 2011, real samples were also published.

http://www.4gamer.net/games/122/G012292/20110126021/

[HelixPC]

@ HelixPC
The ATI drivers are at least as good as Nvidia drivers if you don't believe it just go check some of the Nvidia forums.

I think immature is to keep on trolling every AMD thread with the same nonsense how bad the AMD drivers are.

I dont need to check any forums, i speak on experience, people seem to get hurt so easily when you talk about amd or ati in these forums, im starting to think AMD owns this place, relax, people state their preference and experience

[Tha Last Meal]

Another Photos for HD 6990

AMD is doing in Singapore on January 27 1 "AMD Asia Pacific Fusion Tech Day" on, "Radeon HD 6990" released a sample-based graphics cards.It is, AMD at the end of the lecture by Mr. Skinner's Mud U.S. headquarters upcoming dual-GPU graphics card was introduced as installed, detailed specifications have not been disclosed.

Cooler unit, which employs two types of slot thickness with a group of fans. External auxiliary power connector is provided with a pin and 6 pin 8, CrossFireX multi-GPU connectors and configuration seems to be used in preparing a group. In addition, the GPU was set back bracket is fixed to the two suspect sites are located.

Video output interface was confirmed by the back panel is expected to support dual-link DVI-I and a group, the group is 4 Mini DisplayPort. The top vents are dominated by the cooler unit.In addition, AMD Asia Pacific Fusion Tech Day was introduced in the information, 後刻 plans to introduce a separate article.

[Lanek]

only 8+6 Pci express pin ?

[Tha Last Meal]

only 8+6 Pci express pin ?

yap,but this card sample-based graphics so this card is not a final version .

[RacingTurtle]

Hopefully thats not right...
No HDMI connector? Is everything moving towards mini-DP with adaptors now?

[SpuTnicK]

maybe it is a re-designed HD 5970?

[[XC] Oj101]

I'm on a slow connection, it just took me 40s to download your sig. Please please please reconsider your sig. I'm not going to report it, just asking nicely that perhaps you remove some frames.

[andos]

Hopefully thats not right...
No HDMI connector? Is everything moving towards mini-DP with adaptors now?

Dual link DVI.

[Th-I3riG02]

can you see any woodscrew? :p

ha!

[Th-I3riG02]

this thing is big enough to BE a computer!

[zalbard]

yap,but this card sample-based graphics so this card is not a final version .

They better go for 2x 8-pin... I bet even that could limit the card's OCing potential.
75W from the PCI-E 2.0 slot, each 8-pin is just 150W. That's just 375W in total, and since a stock single 6970 can go up to around 285W in Furmark, that might limit seriously limit the OCing on water.

[Lanek]

Not really, it's reference Watts, 6 and 8 pin can draw easy 2 times the reference watts without problem ( take a 5870 with 2x 6pin and OC it to 1100+mhz ) i don't think the 2x 6 pin will be enough otherwise ... It's more your PSU who will be the limit.

[EnJoY]

With one fan that small, this thing is guaranteed to be super loud!

[RaV666]

I dont need to check any forums, i speak on experience, people seem to get hurt so easily when you talk about amd or ati in these forums, im starting to think AMD owns this place, relax, people state their preference and experience

Ok then, i never had any serious issues with ati cards and their drivers.
Recently i recomennded GTX460 to a friend on xp sp3.
And then we installed splinter cell conviction.
For the life of me we could not get it started, it would go to windows after fmv`s.When i brought mine 6850 and installed in his pc, game started no problem.
Does that mean i should tell everybody that nvidia drivers suck ass ?
Because i honestly dont think so.
As to the cards 6pin+8pin ,with powertune i dont think it will not be enough.
Unless you benchmark furmark with LN.

[Manicdan]

there is almost no point in seeing 8pin pcie anymore, every PSU we buy has 6pin output and just a little wire connecting the 2 extra pins.

[Chickenfeed]

I'm expecting the same powertune feature to be present on the 6990 and that it will need to be used to increase clock speeds by any significant amount. My guess is we will see it with 2 Caymen XT cores (being 3072 shaders) in the 725-775 core range and memory in the 4800-5000 range. Should run around $600USD at launch with limited availability and total performance very close (5-10%+) to CF 6950s in high resolution / AA situations.

I think this is reasonable guess work. I'm most interested in how the revised reference heatsink / fan will cope as I liked the single pcb 295 but never liked my 4870x2 or the 5970 ive worked with.

[SpuTnicK]

I'm on a slow connection, it just took me 40s to download your sig. Please please please reconsider your sig. I'm not going to report it, just asking nicely that perhaps you remove some frames.

no probs. tho i am not the only one using it at XS

[eXceeded]

I'm on a slow connection, it just took me 40s to download your sig. Please please please reconsider your sig. I'm not going to report it, just asking nicely that perhaps you remove some frames.

Haha yours is also massive! Difference is I have broadband that behaves as if it's dialup

[[XC] Oj101]

Haha yours is also massive! Difference is I have broadband that behaves as if it's dialup

Mine's 17kb, not 600kb My ADSL is the same, 384k sucks but I manage :/

@SpuTnicK, absolutely nothing personal, I haven't come across it before and my issue is that until that #$^@ing advert at the top of the page and all sigs/avatars have loaded I don't get the quick reply at the bottom Maybe just lower the quality a tad?

Anyway, moving on... What is the overall length of this card? I like em big

[SpuTnicK]

some say its 297mm

[Utnorris]

Any news on the release date?

[gatecrasherlok]

Looking at those pictures that is one lengthy card, and alot of people will have problems fitting that thing into their comp.