Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Radeon HD 6990: AMD unleashes the power of the Antilles

It is now a fixture for AMD to present to each new generation of video cards a solution aimed to end dual-GPU enthusiast. This year is the turn of the Radeon HD 6990, code-named Antilles, 4GB memory card equipped with GDDR5 video and two video chips Cayman (HD 6970) configured to operate in CrossFire on a single PCB.

The house in Sunnyvale consolidates the scepter of VGA fastest on the market (never lost to the HD 5970, ndr) but this time sacrificed in a decisive three factors that in recent years have helped to reaffirm the Radeon series products: the drinking, noise and Price. " The Radeon HD 6990 is the first board to declare a maximum power of 375W (450W in ways that become even "OC") adopts a cooling system that - for enhanced and improved fatigue-at times to hold off the exuberance of the two cores and is sold at a list price set by AMD in 699 U.S. dollars.


Unfortunately, with the 40nm manufacturing process still these are the limits currently achievable, we will seek solutions that nVidia which is called upon to respond to the Radeon HD 6990 with the GeForce GTX 590 chip based on two even bigger: GF110.

Coupled with AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology, AMD and AMD HD3D PowerTune power management; this card is so powerful thet it can take on even the ultra-enthusiast.

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