Monday, January 24th 2011
Radeon HD 6990 ''Antilles'' Graphics Card Pictured
A few days earlier, AMD's Matt Skynner displayed the company's newest graphics card that seeks to extend the performance leadership currently held by Radeon HD 5970. The dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990, codenamed "Antilles", makes use of two 40 nm "Cayman" GPU, which powers the single-GPU HD 6950 and HD 6970. The core configuration of Cayman in Antilles is not known. The card itself keeps up with the product styling that all Radeon HD 6000 series carry, it's about as long as the HD 5970.
This time, AMD is toying with a revolutionary new cooler design that makes use of a cylindrical blower (like ones used in air-curtains, on a much smaller scale) to draw air from the rear portion of the cooler, and circulate through the complex vapor-chamber enhanced heatsink inside. In other words, the card lacks a fan intake hole where it's typically located, but the rear portion serves that purpose. Power is drawn in from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors. AMD is expected to release the new enthusiast graphics card in this quarter.
Source:
ITOC.com.tw
This time, AMD is toying with a revolutionary new cooler design that makes use of a cylindrical blower (like ones used in air-curtains, on a much smaller scale) to draw air from the rear portion of the cooler, and circulate through the complex vapor-chamber enhanced heatsink inside. In other words, the card lacks a fan intake hole where it's typically located, but the rear portion serves that purpose. Power is drawn in from two 8-pin PCI-E power connectors. AMD is expected to release the new enthusiast graphics card in this quarter.
56 Comments on Radeon HD 6990 ''Antilles'' Graphics Card Pictured
"Hey! looky what I got here! It's a dual GPU card with looks of a brick, or a 9800GX2 with red stripes on the side. Neat, huh?"
In the second pic he's:
"What did you say? Did I just hear the N-word?! I'm gonna throw this card at you, if I hear that again!!!"
ahhh the good ole dayz
hmm, might be exciting...
When is the release date of this beast anyways ?
There are some high standards for revealing cards at shows these days...
AMD need to hire someone with talent to design their cards because the 6*** cards are fulgly MOFOs
And upon re reading the page, btar has already read our minds. Lovely.
Funnily enough 6970s don't do to badly against 580 sli setups :laugh:
single card vs single card nvidia wins, crossfire/vs sli it depends on the benchmark.
then we lol'd
i hope its hd 6970 downclocked, just like hd 5970
But it's what i am waiting for so i can decide what to get so even so not really any details Thanks anyways BT.
I wouldn't associate lack of leaked specs as an indicator of performance.
Besides, any dual gfx config from the top two players from both camps is bound to be castrated to satisfy power PCIe requirements.
Roll on Q4 2011.