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.
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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
Coupled with the vapor chamber cooling this could be enough to cool the card without having to go triple slot (fouling potential crossfire setups).
Can't wait to see some performance numbers though.:)
for me this card would suck in nothing from my PSU in my lian li RF case, from the punched grill side panel of my HTPC and unless i had 2 of them the big gaping hole in between the PSU and card in my haf932 :toast:
3870X2 draws from the bottom
4850X2 draws from the bottom
4870X2 draws from bottom
5970 draws from bottom
7950GX2 SAME THING
9800GX2 still the SAME THING
i am seeing a pattern here its like video cards all have the SAME BASIC COOLER
BTW see my system specs, I now have a reference 5870 and I'm not new to the these stuff so I know how coolers were/are designed.
If this thing sucks air from the outside and can also exhaust out later than I would really be impressed.
Show me a cooler on top of the card or venting from the top, all of the circuitry that gets real hot is on the bottom. Hence the coolers tend to suck from the bottom :O.
With my dual 1900's, they ran MUCH cooler with a fan blowing on them from the backside. With my 3870 it was the same thing. Surprisingly even the 5770 does. I would not rule out this fan system. The big question is how quiet it will be!