Quote Originally Posted by bamtan2 View Post
1. $700 video card buyers can afford the power difference.

2. was it guru3d that has the performance difference across many games averaged as 3%?

3. most kids think noise doesnt matter. I know, I was one. then we grow up. 6990 is significantly, prohibitively more noisy than 590.
Cool story bro, there's a reason I own a $350 water loop to cool my $220 CPU, hint hint, it has to do with noise.

It's really not very hard to modify fan curves in Radeon BIOS Editor or even afterburner, simply setting the fan manually to 45-50% would solve the noise issue.

I own a 4870X2 in my other rig, I know exactly how annoying these cards can be.

What I was saying is that the TPU review shows that the 6990 is ahead perf per watt overall by 20% despite being over 30% slower than the 590 was in two of TPU's game tests.

Performance across the board was nearly even, but the 6990 gained over the 590 at high resolutions.