Leaked: ATI Radeon HD 6990 specifications

Yeah, they should delay like they did with the gtx 400, it was great for them.

:S

I dont know if it is better to buy one of those mosnter$ than will last 5 years being the best or buying a half price card than will, dont know, 3 years being the best?. But I don't see any game in the future than will use more than a gtx 480, only crysis 2.

Looks great, now all AMD have to do is make drivers that these new cards deserve for once =/

Well played !

Crysis 2 won't be the be-all-and-end-all game that some seem to think it will be (imo). Once game dev's start making better use of DX11 features -S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2 (CryEngine3) comes to mind- realistic effects, ambient occlusion, more pervasive physics (destructable/interactive enviroments etc.),more widespread use of tessellation along with higher driver/game levels of MLAA/SSAA/TrSSAA (for example) should keep the graphics market ticking over for the foreseeable future....and once DX11 has run it's race, there's always DirectX 12 and ray tracing.

People also seem to forget that nVIDIA's CUDA cores are actually used by professionals, end users, scientists, servers, and video and picture editors. Also PhysX, great SLi scaling, etc.

AMD has Eyefinity (a fad), and Crossfire. Havok physics is software driven (owned by Intel), and time after time, new Catalyst driver releases offer very very very little in adding performance. AMD's GPU's and CPU's are cheaper because they have no choice. Why do you think the lesser known brands at your supermarket are cheaper than the big brands? Why would it be any different with silicon?

Jensen said it himself BEFORE Fermi was out... "There is no safety net at nVIDIA."

AKA, go big or go home. AMD has yet to get to get off the couch if you ask me.

Not to mention ~99% of hospitals and health facilities for radiography (X-ray/CT/MRI tomography), audiology and numerous other branches of medical discipline....but how does that relate to the HD 6990 ?...or are you just trolling?

Highly unlikely......

Patently untrue. The only negatives I think you can lay at AMD's graphics drivers are lack of legacy support, the (up until recently) prehistoric profile setting and a smaller team of code writers. Crossfire and general gaming applications are for the most part very good. ( I run both SLI and CFX )

You obviously never tried to buy a HD 5870 or 5890 some time between October 2009 and November 2010. CPU's on the other hand are more likely priced due to 1.The fact that the process they use (45nm) is ancient -the tooling and R&D costs have been amortized some time ago, and 2. to maintain marketshare (see recent drops in GTX 460 pricing for a comparison)

And just how much marketshare, mindshare and revenue did that ethos cost nvidia when the G212 failed to materialize and GF100 (Fermi) was hurriedly pressed into action as a desktop card -which was never nvidia's original intention?

nvidia ended up doing both..........I'm definitely thinking tr....

....oll

What bizarro universe have you been living in this past year?

Hows the benefit package over there at Nvidia? These are some seriously ignorant comments

If you actually think about it, the whole 'Nvidia holding back their dual gpu card waiting for Antilles' is pretty silly. The 480 was a power management/performance failure and your competitor has moved 20million+ DX11 gpu parts in comparison to what ? You had nothing to answer the 5970 and a moderately successful upper mid range part in the 460. Now with the chance to stamp your name on dual gpu board performance, you say 'nah, we'll wait and see what AMD does'. That sounds like fear and doubt in the performance of your own product.

@Regenweald
I think I speak for most tech enthusiasts when I say PLEASE p*ss off back to troll-land. We already have our quota of mush-brained regurgitated fanboi-speak. Besides I hear Charlie's proctology exam only needs your nose to begin commencement...please don't keep him waiting...and take jurassic4096 with you.
Maybe, with two hemispheres of brain available, your combined efforts will result in a posting thats not fatuous, unoriginal and actually adds something to the discussion.

LOL divide, I didn't realize you were so emotional over this stuff.... but you still get an a for effort, creativity and ... colourfulness. As for tech enthusiast, A true one would look at all aspects of a product and in the case of a GPU, more than fps before worshiping a product. In the case of the entire Fermi generation, performance has not been proportional to the sheer power demands of the cards. But hey, what would the internets be without an insult or two on a comment board eh ?

A true tech enthusiast would see that the thread is about the HD 6990.
A true tech enthusiast would likely post regarding possible performance of said card.
A true tech enthusiast might speculate on it's design and feature set
A true tech enthusiast might also speculate on it's introduction date and pricing.

A troll will use the thread to blather on about another companys products

QED

From the article:

I guess since you put QED at the end of this one.....I admit....defeat ? it's late, enough with this now, you win.....

@Regenweald
Sweet....the article mentions the GTX 580 and 590 (?) as a parting thought/aside in an article about the HD 6990, so that warrants some rambling about how crappy the GTX 480 is, and how fantastic the HD 5970 is, and some faint praise for the 460....in fact, your posting doesn't include one word about either the HD 6990 or upcoming (?) nvidia card.

So basically it's nvidia bashing using only a tangentially connected product...much the same as employed by the green-tinged mouth-breathers when they wax lyrical about the late, hot and underperforming R600.

Note: If using quotes it's probably best if these quotes somehow help your argument

AMD's 5870 and 5970 beat NVIDIA out of the park. You can't beat 3200 stream processing units. AMD beats NVIDIA on raw power and on rendering graphics.

The Cray Jaguar supercomputer runs on AMD processing units and could run a lot faster and more efficiently if it used AMD GPU's as well. China's supercomputer may be faster but it cannot sustain speeds for very long.

IF ? WTF is IF ? Daydreaming 101.
The XT5 isn't configured for using GPGPU....big pity really since 37,376 Opteron 2435's obviously isn't the way forward at a guess.
What does a near-obsolete six-core CPU has to do with a graphics card discussion ?

Newsflash fanboy : ALL supercomputers are ranked in theoretical throughput -INCLUDING Jaguar.

Of course, thats why they built it...the local toy shop was out of Meccano.
The Tiahne-1A is so obviously lacking in performance that the U.S. Dept. of Defense has made Intel and nvidia prime contractors, along with MIT and Sandia for a Xeon/nvidia GPGPU SC....best you contact all of them and tell them they're doing it wrong.

:haha:, I keep tellin ya Chef, there should be a quote hall of fame/shame...holy mackerel

That should be the subject of TS's next giveaway.

Prizes for finding the:
"Best, Worst, Most Ill-advised, Most ludicrous, Best/worst predictive (might need to disable the Edit function for that one) comments posted on TS treasure hunt" ™


...think of all those page clicks !

Yeah because the GTX 480 was such a success and the HD 5870 was a giant fail. OH WAIT IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND! Also the thing you brought up about the drivers just isn't true anymore and Crossfire scaling is nearly on par with SLI.

i still go to ati instead bec. price is affordable ati can withstand much higher temp and can live longer while nvidia the price *****,horrible it can not afford by middle class people..