First look on Antilles or 6990. Its humongous

[topgear]

^8th march-techpowerup.

that's great - 5 more days to see some benchmarks !

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

AMD HD 6990 up and running at Cebit

 

[mohiuddin]

It got 3000~points at 3dmark11 extreme preset, between 6950cfx (2700~) and 6970cfx(3300~)...rumor...clocked 800mhz(most probably) or 830mhz...
Pretty bold...huh?

 

[topgear]

lift the skirt and show off a little

*www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Radeon-HD-6990-Pictures-Sapphire-6990-XFX-6990-Cables-KitGuru.jpg

For more

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

awesome choice for multimonitors.

 

[tkin]

^^ Hey sure. My bad.Sorry.

It makes sense. AMD can't afford to give too many freebies. I hope we can fall back on the pencil trick, if the worst comes to pass.

Back to antilles then. 6 Tflops! 4 GB DDR5! (2 Gb effective). 300/30 power consumption! Almost too good to be true. What price range do you think it will occupy? 500-600 or 600+?

My mind goes numb when i think of the crossfire possibilities..

Depending on 590, the cost will range from 600-700$.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

AMD's Radeon HD 6990: The New Single Card King - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News
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PowerColor Radeon HD 6990 CrossFire Review - Page 1/20 | techPowerUp

 

[mohiuddin]

Just finished guru3d and hardwarecanucks review.
Man, in multi-display setup it competes with 580 sli, consuming ~80wat less power in 3dmark batch test.
And its #1 & #2 no. gpu, both r cooler than 6970 reference gpu with that single blower...what a win.
price a bit high, but expected with that huge performance with single card....

 

[tkin]

Price is a bit high, we have a lot more options now, 700$ is too much.

PS: Since this card is breaking PCI spec, it should have 3 power connectors, all asus special models had them, it distributes the load evenly.

 

[vickybat]

^^ Yup price is too high and its a big loser imo on this aspect. One is better of with a 6950 2gb cfx. Gives almost the same performance, is noisy and is much much cheaper.

 

[skeletor]

^^ Yup price is too high and its a big loser imo on this aspect. One is better of with a 6950 2gb cfx. Gives almost the same performance, runs lot cooler, consumes lot lesser power and is much much cheaper.

Power consumption and temperatures are almost/exactly same. Read the reviews.

Dual GPU cards are always losers anyways. The drivers let them down.

 

[vickybat]

^^ Oops my bad. You are right,power and temp levels are almost same in 6950cfx and 6990 but the latter is much noisier.

Thanks for correcting mate. Previous post edited.

 

[asingh]

How is a dual GPU different from a physical multi-GPU. The driver realizes them one and the same..? Power wise they might vary, same with thermals.

 

[topgear]

I can spot a great diff between them

2x gfx cards with single gpu gives you power of 2 gpus but a physical multigpu card can give you a quad gpu setup with only two cards

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

^^ya TP people with cases like HAF etc can get a 6990 and crossfire it later. killer for upcoming 4-5years

BTW - HAF - High Air Flow

 

[tkin]

Today I again had the 100% GPU load at idle bug, happens when I use Internet explorers hardware accelerated demos and close it down, the problem is with the drivers as with ccc 10.10e the problem never happened, AMDs drivers are starting to bug me.

On a side note game performance is sweet, getting over 60 FPS in DiRT2 maxed out DX11/8xAA, but these small issues ruins the experience. Crossfire users run into this bug more often. ATI rectified this for the 69xx series with 11.2 drivers, no love for 5xxx users.

 

[asingh]

I can spot a great diff between them

2x gfx cards with single gpu gives you power of 2 gpus but a physical multigpu card can give you a quad gpu setup with only two cards

Well actually I meant what would be the difference between a 4870x2 and 4870 Xfire subsystem..? The drivers understand them exactly the same. Not much scaling difference.

^^ya TP people with cases like HAF etc can get a 6990 and crossfire it later. killer for upcoming 4-5years

BTW - HAF - High Air Flow

That gives you Quad Xfire. Which is bad. Games hardly scale that well.

Today I again had the 100% GPU load at idle bug, happens when I use Internet explorers hardware accelerated demos and close it down, the problem is with the drivers as with ccc 10.10e the problem never happened, AMDs drivers are starting to bug me.

On a side note game performance is sweet, getting over 60 FPS in DiRT2 maxed out DX11/8xAA, but these small issues ruins the experience. Crossfire users run into this bug more often. ATI rectified this for the 69xx series with 11.2 drivers, no love for 5xxx users.

AMD does not support legacy true. But the acceleration on IE sites, does it halt your system.

 

[tkin]

Well actually I meant what would be the difference between a 4870x2 and 4870 Xfire subsystem..? The drivers understand them exactly the same. Not much scaling difference.



That gives you Quad Xfire. Which is bad. Games hardly scale that well.



AMD does not support legacy true. But the acceleration on IE sites, does it halt your system.

No, but it ramps up my system fan, and gpu-z shows 100% load at idle, its a bad bug, needs reboot to fix, it makes the gpu consume more power when its not needed. And ye 4870x2 and 4870 cf are same to the drivers and the system.

 

[Jaskanwar Singh]

That gives you Quad Xfire. Which is bad. Games hardly scale that well.

you were right. i saw the techpowerup review on powercolor 6990 crossfire. it wasnt that good scaling at all.

but wont the future games develop more concrete support for high end gpu setups?

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like scaling of quad cfx was good in metro2033.

 

[asingh]

^^
More about drivers, honestly. ATI still has a long way to go.