Wednesday, January 26th 2011
AMD Radeon HD 6990 Pictured Up Close
Here's the Radeon HD 6990 up close. The HD 6990 is AMD's new dual-GPU graphics card that extends the performance leadership held by Radeon HD 5970. The pictures put rest to some speculation surrounding the cooler design. It now appears that the cooler design is similar to that of the GeForce GTX 295 single-PCB, as far as air-flow is concerned. A single long PCB holds two GPU systems on either sides, a centrally-located blower pushes air on either sides. The exhaust from one GPU is sent out of the case, while that from the other is pushed out of the card from its rear portion.
The Radeon HD 6990 uses two 40 nm Cayman GPUs, it packs a total of 3072 stream processors, and 4096 MB of memory between the two GPU systems. It also features a new kind of display output that consists of one dual-link DVI and four mini-DP 1.2. Power is drawn in from one 6-pin and an 8-pin PCIe connector. The card can pair with another of its kind for 4-GPU CrossFireX. It is expected to be released a little later in this quarter.
Source:
4Gamer.net
The Radeon HD 6990 uses two 40 nm Cayman GPUs, it packs a total of 3072 stream processors, and 4096 MB of memory between the two GPU systems. It also features a new kind of display output that consists of one dual-link DVI and four mini-DP 1.2. Power is drawn in from one 6-pin and an 8-pin PCIe connector. The card can pair with another of its kind for 4-GPU CrossFireX. It is expected to be released a little later in this quarter.
124 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 6990 Pictured Up Close
Anyway, the whole point is rather moot...I had an Eyefinity 6 card, and it came with enough dongles to fill 5 of the 6 of the mini-DP ports.
Also, if Eyefinity worked with using seperate display output controllers, there'd be no requirement of having the monitors all plugged into the same GPU. Crossfire and Eyefinity just doesn't work the way you'd like, as software would be required to manage the displsy outputs, and keep them in sync, which of course, will cause a performance penalty, and is contrary to AMD's choice of "hardware-only" based multi-monitor configurations.
To give what you'd like, there'd have to be a seperate driver for Eyefinity with 6990, than what is used for all the rest of the Eyefinity-capable cards. This would increase driver development time, as well as the required workforce, and would make it far more expensive then it already is. It just doesn't make sense.
If i end up getting one near release which is a possibility i'll make the bottom front fan output so hot air will get out better although need to test that IF i end up getting one pending on what the reviews are like for it.
and the most important thing we didn't know what accessories that will be bundled with the card, so if they bundled with DP to DVI converter it will be no problem
Do you think those adapters are free? Because the HDMI licensing fee pretty much is, something like 4 Cents a port or something, IIRC. So we are talking a whole 8 cents a card cost to AMD, I'm guessing the adapters cost more than 8 Cents a piece...
And the crap about HDMI not having enough bandwidth to support a 3D signal is horseshit. How do all those 3D Blu-Rays manage to do it? How does nVidia manage to do it? They must be using magic.:roll: With 10.2Gb/s bandwidth, HDMI has enough bandwidth to support 3D display@1080p.
and thats why real 3D monitor (that have 120Hz) require dual link DVI connector.
yeah i didn't know how much HDMI license fee is, but i suspect AMD will try to push DP adoption rate, and i like it,because it will force LCD maker to include DP connector on their LCD.
and i said IF they include adapter.
and if there was more than one DVI then it will block the exhaust, and every bit of ventilation is needed because lets face it, it will be really hot inside (and ppl already complained why the card still dump the heat to the PC)
But i think AMD is just looking to the future due to articles like this.
Intel, AMD, Samsung, Dell and Lenovo have all committed to replace analog with digital alternatives by 2015. the companies will push the adoption of alternative interfaces and encourage the use of certified DisplayPort adapters with older screens.
I thought there has been no official release of information on the exact spec just pictures so far?
According to this very news article it has a total of 3072 stream processors, two 6970 cores total 3072, if it was two 6950 cores it would total 2816 instead.
So it is two Cayman XT aka the version in the 6970.
It doesn't say anything about the clock speed.
I must callz it " zee brick of death!"
muahhaha
Heck, by the looks of the layout now, they could have stacked the DPs on top of eachother, making room for the extra DVI and keeping the 4 DPs and not blocked any of the exhaust. Or at the very least, stacked the DPs and included an HDMI port.
As bear jesus posted, Intel AND AMD are pushing DP forward. Samsung and Dell, as panel makers, are on the same boat.
DP, i gues unfortuantely for you, is the way of the future. It offers more than HDMI does, simply by having USB as part of it(thanks to Dell, and thier monitors having USB hubs).
As teh flagship of a generation of cards, and the extreme enthusiast product, it would be foolhardy of them to not push such technologies forward. I can alsmot guarantee that you'll get at least one adapter in the box, if not 4 or 5. Your option of using multiple DVI onnections is mroe than possible..it will happen.
I mean, don't get me wrong...I tihnk the lack of adapters in the box would be a failure...but not on AMD's part. AMD doesn't sell consumers videocards...they sell GPUs to OEM who then sell them to us. It would be the OEM's failure, not AMD's.
@cadaveca:
While DP has the potential to be the way of future, we costumers will suffer till it becomes the standard on all monitors, entry through enthusiast ones. (BTW, miss you on teamspeak :) )
I admit it was worse when eyefinity was new as most active adapters were around £60 to £80 but the ability to use cheap monitors and a cheap adapter made me very happy :D
Until display port becomes more standard on all monitors i like many others are very happy to use adapters, i see it as pretty much the same as going from VGA to DVI, when i was using a VGA only monitor i just used a DVI to VGA adapter until in the future i got a DVI monitor.