AMD 6990, the new graphics card with dual-core AMD and leading

Components of PC WhisKiTo on March 8, 2011 | 06: 05 To vote this post connect with Facebook Connect

We started the morning with the AMD 6990, the new graphics of AMD card. Its launch was anticipated for months, and after the GTX 580 seemed a safe bet. AMD always has been a step behind NVidia in terms of power bruta… until today.

AMD 6990 is presented as the most powerful market graphics card, but with trap, that Yes: integrates two GPU's 40 nanometer, more precisely the model of the AMD 6970 that promise a very high performance.

But the thing is not here. This beast offers dual BIOS to be the fetish of the users who will be practicing overclocking in it, some endiabladas features and a price accessible to few. Not everything was going to be good, clear.
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These are the features and specifications of the 6990 AMD with the default settings:

AMD 6990, with Dual GPU to 830 MHz. in 40 nanometers. 4 GB of GDDR5 memory of 256 bits to 1,250 MHz.3.072 ALU for ATi Stream.Salidas video: 1xDVI and 4xminiDisplayPort.Hasta 5.10 TERAFLOPS of calculations.Two connectors for 8-pin power each.Maximum power of 350 Watts.

One of the features that most shall draw the attention of the AMD 6990 is the dual BIOS that includes factory. AMD takes something that we have already seen on certain motherboards and implements it in his new most leading graphics card.

With this system AMD incorporates two configurations: a standard and another slightly overclockeada, whose main difference is that the GPU clock is increased, from the 830 to 880 MHz. This has implications for higher performance (+ 3% approximately) but also consumption considerably larger, from 350 to 415 Watts on average.

Will be the user that you can choose what BIOS used, which will only have to slide a small tab located on the card itself. It is unknown what the conditions for change, for example, if the computer must be turned off. This dual BIOS will not prevent the user to make an even more intense overclocking on the graphics card.

The performance of the AMD 6990 is, as expected, spectacular. According to analysis of the own AMD talk of about + 67% with respect to the NVidia GTX 580, which is a very notable increase. We obviously have to take these data with tweezers, because they come from the manufacturer himself of the newly presented card. To check your final performance it is best to check the analysis of independent web pages.

There is no doubt that AMD 6990 may operate any game, and with any configuration. Is, like other components such as the Intel Core i7 - 990 X, a product designed almost in exclusive for overclocking, to be shown at fairs and little more. Perhaps few of you - I bet a beer that none - is her buy, because there are many other more interesting models for use in our home computers. Isn't it?

In addition to for overclocking, AMD 6990 also has amd eyefinity technology in the spotlight. Much we talked about it, although it is still not commonplace in our homes. Its main purpose is to exit 6 monitors at most with a single graphics card.

To this end the 6990 AMD integrates a DVI and four miniDisplayPort, outputs more than enough for the more classical configurations in our homes, of one or two monitors at the earliest, arriving at three in the most extreme cases. With the 6990 we can use up to 5 monitor configurations in different situations. AMD has confirmed that all the 6990 include miniDisplayPort adapter to HDMI, as well as two miniDisplayPort to SL-DVI.

The AMD 6990, like much of most hardware on the market, it has its place in the home, as we have already discussed. It is a spectacular that we all want, but due to the price that it has - and that we will later comment - is a product that escapes within reasonable limits for any user. This does not mean that if someone wants to give a whim not can buy her, course.

But there are alternative much better quality/price, not to mention also that its energy consumption is too high. In the section on operating temperatures seems that AMD has achieved solved with a single fan located between the two GPU and their fans. Surely this 6990 approaching 90 degrees in Full, a decent though improved figure.

If what you want is the best current graphics card then the 6990 is your choice, in the hope that NVidia presents the anticipated NVidia GTX 590 which is expected to be even better than the 6990 of which I speak today. And it is upon us, I notice.

The AMD 6990 in Spain price is of 599 euros, the highest of the current generation and around 150 more than the GTX 580 euros. He is expected to begin arriving in stores specializing in the next few days.

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