/AMD introduces Radeon HD 6990

AMD introduces Radeon HD 6990

Move over 5970, the new king of the hill is here. AMD’s top end card, the dual-GPU Antilles or for easier references the Radeon HD 6990 has arrived.

The Radeon HD 6990 is clocked at 830MHz GPU frequency (@1.12v) and 1,250MHz for the memory (5.0Gbps effective data rate) and is equipped with 4GB of on-board frame buffer memory—2GB per GPU, 3072 stream processors enabled, 192 texture units, and 64 ROPs. Added up, that’s about twice the specs of a Radeon HD 6970s (almost as the 6970 cards are clocked at 880MHz). This dual GPU monster has a suprisingly low idle TDP of just 37W and a TDP at load of 375W (lol, it’s a monster card indeed).

AMD Radeon HD 6990 specs are as follows:

AMD Radeon HD 6990 AMD Radeon HD 6970 AMD Radeon HD 6950 AMD Radeon HD 5970
Stream Processors 2×1536 1536 1408 2×1600
Texture Units 2×96 96 88 2×80
ROPs 2×32 32 32 2×32
Core Clock 830MHz 880MHz 800MHz 725MHz
Memory Clock 1.25GHz (5.0GHz data rate) GDDR5 1.375GHz (5.5GHz data rate) GDDR5 1.25GHz (5.0GHz data rate) GDDR5 1.GHz (4GHz data rate) GDDR5
Memory Bus Width 2x 256-bit 256-bit 256-bit 2×256-bit
Frame Buffer 2x2GB 2GB 2GB 2x1GB
FP64 1/4 1/4 1/4 1/5
Transistor Count 2x 2.64B 2.64B 2.64B 2×2.15B
Manufacturing Process TSMC 40nm TSMC 40nm TSMC 40nm TSMC 40nm
Price Point $699 $349 $259 N/A

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