AMD Radeon HD 6990
The AMD ATI Radeon HD 6990 is a massive graphics card measuring in at 12 inches long (30cm) and weighing a little over 1kg. The heatsinks are separated by a blower fan which is positioned in-between them rather than at the end of the card. The Radeon HD 6990 has an impressively low 37-watt idle consumption. The GDDR5 memory works at 5000MHz (1.25GHz x 4) on this particular model and features a 4GB capacity.
VLIW4 (Cayman x2)
Architecture
High-end
Product Tier
3072
Shader Cores
64
ROPs
192
TMUs
No RT
Ray Tracing
4 GB
Memory
GDDR5
Memory Type
320 GB/s
Bandwidth
375 W
TDP
| GPU Snapshot | |||
| Release date: | Mar 8, 2011 | Price at Launch: | $699 |
| Type: | Desktop | Architecture: | VLIW4 (Cayman x2) |
| Generation: | Radeon HD 6000 series | Product Tier: | High-end |
| VRAM Capacity: | 4 GB | Total Board Power: | 375 W |
| Core Configuration | |||
| Shader Cores: | 3072 | TMUs: | 192 |
| ROPs: | 64 | L2 Cache: | 512 KB x2 |
| Memory | |||
| VRAM Capacity: | 4 GB | Memory Type: | GDDR5 |
| Memory Speed: | 5 Gbps | Memory Bus: | 256-bit x2 |
| Bandwidth: | 320 GB/s | ||
| Graphics Processing | |||
| Base Clock: | 0.83 GHz | FP32 Throughput: | 5.10 TFLOPs |
| Ray Tracing: | No | Process Size: | 40nm |
| Process Name: | TSMC 40nm | Die Size: | 389 mm² |
| Power & Connectivity | |||
| Total Board Power: | 375 W | Power Connectors: | 2x 8-pin |
| Bus Interface: | PCIe 2.0 x16 | HDMI Support: | HDMI 1.4a |
| DisplayPort Support: | Mini-DP 1.2 | DSC: | No |
| Max Displays: | 5 | ||
| Media & Software Support | |||
| DirectX Support: | 11 | Shader Model: | 5.0 |
| OpenGL Version: | 4.5 | ||
As keen as we were to check out the Radeon HD 6990, after working with a number of dual-GPU Radeon generations we knew we weren't in for a big surprise. The Radeon HD 6990 is very similar to the older HD 5970 minus a few notable improvements. In...
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