AMD Demonstrates Radeon HD 6990 for the First Time

At a conference held in Taiwan, Matt Skynner, AMD's vice president of graphics business, unexpectedly came up with a new video card: the new generation of Antilles card, the Radeon HD 6990.

Since NVIDIA has not had a single-card dual-core product for a long time, the Radeon HD 5970 has not met its rivals for the rest of its life, and the GeForce GTX 480/580 can only comfort itself with the title of the world's fastest GPU. The Radeon HD 6990 was originally planned for release at the end of last year, but somehow it was postponed until the first quarter of this year and is now expected to be officially launched by the end of February.

Matt Skynner just shook this sample card, only to let everyone see its huge size and two cores corresponding to the back of the PCB design, and two eight-pin auxiliary power supply interface, did not disclose more details. Not surprisingly, Radeon HD 6990 will be equipped with two Cayman XT Radeon HD 6970 cores, with 3072 stream processors and 4GB GDDR5 memory, on the one hand, it is possible to continue the practice down to the level of Radeon HD 6950, ie 800/5000MHz On the other hand, the double eight-pin can guarantee the power supply capacity of 375W. It does not rule out the possibility that AMD will give up to 880/5500MHz.