Asus Radeon HD 6990 4GB GDDR5 PCIe EAH6990/3DI4S/4GD5

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Pros:

Fastest graphics card, Significant performance increase over previous generation, Likes synthetic benchmarks, Low idle power draw, Dual BIOS feature to activate higher clocks and voltage, Supports up to 5 displays on its own, 6 using DP multistream, Suppo

Cons:

Expensive, High load and Bluray power draw, Very noisy, Optimum performance depends on CrossFire profile support, AMD PowerTune and ULPS complicate advanced overclocking, Long card, might be difficult to fit in some PC cases, DirectX 11 relevance limited

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Last revision on March 29, 2013

Reviewers Liked

Fastest graphics card, Significant performance increase over previous generation, Likes synthetic benchmarks, Low idle power draw, Dual BIOS feature to activate higher clocks and voltage, Supports up to 5 displays on its own, 6 using DP multistream, Suppo

Reviewers Didn't Like

Expensive, High load and Bluray power draw, Very noisy, Optimum performance depends on CrossFire profile support, AMD PowerTune and ULPS complicate advanced overclocking, Long card, might be difficult to fit in some PC cases, DirectX 11 relevance limited

Expert reviews and ratings

Let's get this straight - this ASUS brute is probably not for you. Unless you're the rare kind of hardware fiend who refrigerates the liquid in your PC's water cooling kit or plays your games over four widescreen monitors at once, this speed...

By APC Magazine on June 29, 2011

AMD successfully pulled off the seemingly impossible: they married two Radeon HD 6970 GPUs on one PCB. A year ago nobody would have thought such an engineering feat possible. Modern high-end GPUs are limited by the power they can draw and the heat...

By techPowerUp! on March 07, 2011

The ASUS HD6990 is not a mainstream graphics card. It is not built for the masses. It is a show piece of technology, a flagship model demonstrating sheer power over any other consideration be it price, power...

By Vortez on June 09, 2011

Después de probar de mano de Asus la HD6990, y hace unas semanas su directa competidora, la , estamos seguros que ninguna de ellas decepcionará a nadie, sin embargo, los límites de potencia a los que estamos llegando sobrepasan las...

By Hard-H2O on January 12, 2012