AMD Shows Off Official Radeon HD 6990 Images

[jpishgar]

Just chiming in here to make sure that comments are functional.

 

[jpishgar]

Double-checking comment functionality - disregard this post.

 

[falchard]

There is a typo. 6xxx series cards mini-display ports can support 2 monitors each. Thats 9 displays, not 5.

 

[Guest]

it need its own seperate case ^_^

 

[Guest]

AMD sucks.

 

[Cash091]

This card comes just in time... I just got approved for a new home equity loan!!! LMAO!!!

 

[nebun]

AMD called...they want their crown back!!!

 

[Soul_keeper]

40nm again !?

 

[Bigmac80]

Damn this makes me wonder if should of bought my mid tower case!..im going to have to take out my hard drive cage just to fit this thing 🙁

 

[belardo]

Another stupid named product...

if there were a 6800 series, then we'd know a 6900s were dual GPU.... or sick the X2 in front (which still makes the best sense).

 

[belardo]

UH... its a dual GPU card... theres already photos of the 6990 without the cover.

 

[davewolfgang]

2x 6-pin PLUS 2x 8-pin connectors to power it??? ;-)

 

[hannibal]

Yep X2 was very fine way of telling what the card was made of... Maybe it was too easy, so they have to invent something more muddy...

 

[lashton]

[citation][nom]fugemamd[/nom]AMD sucks.[/citation]
lol so do you but there is no news report on you

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]bittech[/nom]Why 5? What happened to 6 eyefinity?[/citation]
I guess if you can afford a Radeon 6990 and 6 decent slim-bezel LCDs, you have enough cash to get TWO 6990s and go Crossfire.

 

[hardcore_gamer]

In the HD 6990, each Cayman is configured to use all 1536 of its VLIW4 stream processors. The GPU core is clocked at 830 MHz, and memory at 1250 MHz (5.00 GHz GDDR5 effective). says TPU.

 

[kashifme21]

Wonder what games its going to run? I mean even crysis 2 ships with just DX 9 lol. I bet AMDs older GPUs like 4870 will be running the games maxed out, is there a reason for this release?

 

[youssef 2010]

too big

 

[Guest]

In my opinion it looks like a piece of trash

 

[legacy-za]

@ tpi2007

I can understand that you are looking for a jaw dropping cooler for the amount of money you will be spending on the card. However, I would like to inform you, AMD created that cooler design for good reasons. I am sure that a company like ASUS / Gigabyte / EVGA etc will create new custom coolers for the "wow" factor but for now, let me explain why AMD created the card like that.

As I am sure you have noticed, they placed the fan in the middle of the card, for a good reason. One GPU will be to the left of the fan and another to the right of the fan. Now think about it, if they placed the cooler on the left and not the middle (or the right) then one of the GPU cores will run on significantly higher temperatures. Remember, blowing another GPU's hot air unto a already high temperature GPU will make things very toasty indeed 🙂

As for the enclosure you complain about, it creates a Tunnel Effect for the cooling to maximize cooling to both GPU cores. If you look carefully, it has vents extracting hot air outside the case as well as inside the case.

For those that want to attack me on the Crossfire, if you run two of these cards, I am sure you have enough money to have afforded a proper case that will ventilate well around both cards.