Is HD6990 still alive?

[Vish2a9l]

Well. So I was jobless enough to search for 6990 and was surprised to see that it is better than 680 and ~ equal to 690. (Source: hwcompare) well, then I also looked it up in flipkart only to find that it has been "PERMANENTLY DISCONTINUED". If it's the third best card in the world, why has it been discontinued? Only anomaly being it's atrociously high power consumption at around 375watts..

www.hwcompare.com/12363/geforce-gtx-680-vs-radeon-hd-6990/
www.hwcompare.com/12678/geforce-gtx-690-vs-radeon-hd-6990/

 

[Techguy]

Your info is bad...

The HD6990 competes with the GTX 680: and overclocked GTX 680 can defeat a 6990. Although they perform the same, the 6990 has 2x the power consumption and makes much more noise......

The GTX 690 gives around 190% the performance of the GTX 680 and is 2x the performacne of the HD 6990

 

[Vish2a9l]

But the links which I have provided don't say so..

Memory Bandwidth
The Radeon HD 6990 should in
theory be quite a bit faster than
the Geforce GTX 680 in general.
(explain)
Radeon HD 6990
320000 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680
192256 MB/sec
Difference: 127744 (66%)
Texel Rate
The Radeon HD 6990 is quite a
bit (about 24%) more effective at
texture filtering than the Geforce
GTX 680. (explain)
Radeon HD 6990
159360 Mtexels/sec
Geforce GTX 680
128768 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 30592 (24%)
Pixel Rate
The Radeon HD 6990 is quite a
bit (more or less 65%) faster with
regards to full screen anti-
aliasing than the Geforce GTX
680, and also able to handle
higher screen resolutions more
effectively. (explain)
Radeon HD 6990
53120 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 680
32192 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 20928 (65%)

 

[Techguy]

*tpucdn.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_680/images/perfrel.gif

that shows the the radeon 6990 is 2% faster.. .. than a stock gtx 680.. a little overclock and the gtx 680 will overtake the radeon....

those specs influence performance but then kepler architecture is amazing....