AMD HD 6990 (Photos!!)

**hazardous** · 02-20-2011, 04:23 PM

yeah that's not going to fit...

**StickyRICE** · 02-20-2011, 04:32 PM

Originally Posted by hazardous

yeah that's not going to fit...

That's what she said.

**ripken204** · 02-20-2011, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by Utnorris

Any news on the release date?

haha i gave up on this card, it's never coming out.
im happy i bought a 6970 a month ago... that is until crysis 2 comes out.
but even 2x6990 will fail at that

**tdream** · 02-20-2011, 05:18 PM

I'm bored of this card by now. Overhyped and undelievered it will be and add very delayed to the list. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the itty bitty fan isn't going to do a good job at cooling the behemoth of a card.

**kuroikenshi** · 02-20-2011, 07:07 PM

Originally Posted by StickyRICE

That's what she said.

she would say that if you'd stop trying to fit in her ear...

**eXa** · 02-20-2011, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by kuroikenshi

she would say that if you'd stop trying to fit in her Rear...

Fixed

**Utnorris** · 02-20-2011, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by tdream

I'm bored of this card by now. Overhyped and undelievered it will be and add very delayed to the list. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the itty bitty fan isn't going to do a good job at cooling the behemoth of a card.

One could say the same about the GTX590. Either way, I just want one of the two to come out. As far as cooling goes, I only water cool, so they could put a 40mm fan on there for all I could care.

**kuroikenshi** · 02-20-2011, 09:49 PM

Originally Posted by eXa

Fixed

**Lanek** · 02-21-2011, 02:18 AM

Originally Posted by tdream

I'm bored of this card by now. Overhyped and undelievered it will be and add very delayed to the list. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the itty bitty fan isn't going to do a good job at cooling the behemoth of a card.

Real question will be more, if it's enough to cool the massive vapor chamber ... At same time, it's reference cards, for more go for Sapphire Toxic, Asus and other non reference design for cooling.

**Postmodum** · 02-21-2011, 04:06 PM

Originally Posted by Utnorris

One could say the same about the GTX590. Either way, I just want one of the two to come out. As far as cooling goes, I only water cool, so they could put a 40mm fan on there for all I could care.

It's going to take a while to get the first blocks

**GoldenTiger** · 02-21-2011, 04:59 PM

I've basically given up waiting on this, probably will hold out for Kepler at this point... aren't we seeing next gen in another few months already on 28nm?

**zalbard** · 02-21-2011, 05:09 PM

Q3-Q4 for high-end most likely, AFAIK.

**GoldenTiger** · 02-21-2011, 05:22 PM

Originally Posted by zalbard

Q3-Q4 for high-end most likely, AFAIK.

Thanks, and sorry for the slight derail there.

**zerazax** · 02-21-2011, 05:35 PM

28nm supposedly got pushed back to at least Q4, who knows with TSMC, and who knows if a high end card will come out on the new node immediately either at this point

TSMC's really slowed things down

**masterg** · 02-21-2011, 06:13 PM

O_O that is without a doubt, larger then my 4850x2

**ripken204** · 02-21-2011, 10:07 PM

Originally Posted by masterg

O_O that is without a doubt, larger then my 4850x2

well it definitely should be.
i was sad to see how much smaller a 6970 was compared to my 4850x2

**Your_Boss** · 02-21-2011, 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by gatecrasherlok

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

Some people will have a hard time fitting that thing in their car on the way home.

**Sgt.McRuff** · 02-22-2011, 12:36 AM

Why are we trying to fit a 6990 in a woman's ear? or rear?

**Sn0wm@n** · 02-22-2011, 12:58 AM

Originally Posted by ripken204

haha i gave up on this card, it's never coming out.
im happy i bought a 6970 a month ago... that is until crysis 2 comes out.
but even 2x6990 will fail at that

sure about that???

**kuroikenshi** · 02-22-2011, 01:54 AM

I get 300 fps on 6970 CF..... really 6990?

**ripken204** · 02-22-2011, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by Sn0wm@n

sure about that???

i was being sarcastic...
but im betting a single 6990 cant do it.

my 6970 is getting ~30fps playing Crysis 1
people here tend to like ~60FPS gaming, so with a 6990 on Crysis 1 it should be possible to play Crysis 1 at 60FPS very high settings on a large monitor, 2560x1440 in my case

Crysis 2 will be even more demanding... so we will see

**~~RaV666~~** · 02-22-2011, 04:51 PM

Early reports suggest it wont be more demanding than crysis 1.

**Postmodum** · 02-22-2011, 04:52 PM

I think that these dual GPU's are coming a little too late ... and with some specs a little under the "bar" ...
This generation of chips is very powerful ( well, +-, Nvidia yes ... AMD so so ) but they are power hungry ... and hot ...

So... the good times of GTX 295 and 5970 ... meh ... i don't see these new solutions being as good in practical terms as the old ones ( yes, they will be quicker, but i don't believe it will have the same "equilibrium" )

**zalbard** · 02-22-2011, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by RaV666

Early reports suggest it wont be more demanding than crysis 1.

That's DirectX 9. What about DirectX 11?

**[XC] hipno650** · 02-22-2011, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by RaV666

Early reports suggest it wont be more demanding than crysis 1.

those preliminary crysis performance numbers should be taken with a truck load of salt so don't be to fast to count them as the norm....

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