Review : AMD HD 6990

Another months has passed, now the Red will takeover the crown as the fastest GPU board in the world. As we know before, March 2011 is 6990 month. Two best chips on a plate is how they do it. And offcourse, you need big cash for this big monster. 709 USD is the lowest price. Let's go to the review...

Like always, the spesification goes first.

As you see above, there are HD 6990 and HD 6990+. The first one is the downclocked one. HD 6990 was derivative from HD 6970, so there is no way it only has 830 Mhz at GPU. While the second one has as 6970, 880 Mhz. But still it can go another step or two. The best and posible overclock with stock cooling were about 10% from the plus one. So it will goes smooth at 950-960 Mhz in GPU and memory can be pushed to 1350-1400 Mhz.

System :

Motherboard VGA X58 Classified
Processor Core i7 965 @ 3750 MHz

Graphics Cards Radeon HD 6990 Reference 4096MB

Memory 6144 MB (3x 2048 MB) DDR3 Corsair @ 1500 MHz

Power Supply Unit 1200 Watt

Monitor Dell 3007WFP - up to 2560x1600

OS related software Windows 7 RTM 64-bit

Can wait to game review right ? Here are some review from guru3d.com :

Theres some "issues" at Anno 1404 when 5970 at the top. But who cares, it still more than enough FPS to enjoying the game while waiting the driver done. And like you see, overall the HD 6990 has taken the crown as the fastes single card GPU. In a month or two, the green will answer this call. What about you ?