Don’t Miss Our Look at AMD’s Radeon HD 6990!

AMD’s Radeon HD 6990 might have taken a while to get here, but for those who’ve been prepared to shell out $700 for AMD’s latest high-end monster, we’ve discovered that your patience has been rewarded. Though AMD cheats just a little by shoving two GPUs into a single card, the HD 6990 does become the fastest graphics card on the planet, proving up to 80% faster than NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580.

Being that the HD 6990 costs about 40% more than the GTX 580, I’d say that a 80% performance gain makes this card almost a good bang for the buck, despite its high price tag. Even further, because of power improvements made, and the fact that this is a single card configuration, power consumption, and even temperatures, have both been decreased. 

In addition to those perks, the card also introduces a “pre-OC” switch, dubbed AUSUM, which can boost the core by 50MHz. With this, the HD 6990’s performance is made more even comparable to the HD 6970 in CrossFireX mode. Further, AMD also made improvements to its overdrive tool, expanding the limit that the core clock can hit, and also, the display connectors on the back have been refreshed.

Does it sound like this card has it all? Well, you’ll have to read through our in-depth look to see if that’s the case!

It’s been a long while since we’ve last seen a $700 graphics card, but AMD revives that tradition with its Radeon HD 6990 dual-GPU offering. Fortunately, the card has proven that its high price-tag is well-earned, as it storms past every other single and dual-GPU graphics card on the market, and introduces other useful features to boot.