Testseek.com have collected 153 expert reviews of the AMD Radeon HD 6990 4GB GDDR5 PCIe and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Radeon HD 6990 4GB GDDR5 PCIe.
March 2011
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The editors liked
Five highresolution displays in Eyefinity
Eyefinity is easy to setup
4GB memory able to handle the highest resolutions
Optional autooverclocking switch
AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing
Decent power consumption/performance ratio
Retail versions come with 3 minidisplay port adapters
Wide range of game compatibility
Even in 5x1 Portrait mode
Unmatched topend DX11 graphics performance
DualBIOS switch enables performance boost
Drives fivedisplay portrait mode Eyefinity
Cayman GPUs enable stereoscopic 3D functionality
Fan exhausts most heated air outside of case
Multiview CODEC enables 3D Bluray playback
Improves DisplayPort to 1.2 with display chaining
Supports dualmode AMD CrossFireX functionality
Highest performance possible for a singleslot graphics card
Significantly faster than GeForce GTX 580
Wide range of supported FSAA modes
Best quality of anisotropic filtering in the industry
Supports up to 6 monitors
Fullyfledged hardware HD video decoding
Including DivX and 3D
Highquality HD video postprocessing with scalability
Integrated sound core with HD support
Sound over H
Extreme Performance
Playable 5-way Eyefinity From a Single Card
4GB On-Board
Overclocked At The Flip of a Switch
Incredible performance.
(Relatively) Energy Efficient
Unparalleled performance
Fastest gaming graphics card available
Easy-overclock switch
The editors didn't like
Very loud fan noise under load
5x1 portrait mode has limited driver support
Extremely expensive enthusiast product
Heated exhaust is vented back into case
Audible cooling fan at idle
Noisy under load
AMD HD3D products are hard to find
High price
Bulky size
Signifacant noise level in 3D mode
Low energyefficiency in powersaving modes
Performance depends on the driver
Limited warranty
Supports less GPGPUaccelerated software than the competitors.
High Power Consumption
Pricey
A Little Loud Under Load
Very expensive. Power-ravenous
Loud under load. Requires two eight-pin power adapters
Five highresolution displays in Eyefinity, Eyefinity is easy to setup, 4GB memory able to handle the highest resolutions, Optional autooverclocking switch, AMD Accelerated Parallel Processing, Decent power consumption/performance ratio, Retail versions come with 3 minidisplay port adapters, Wide range of game compatibility, even in 5x1 Portrait mode,
Very loud fan noise under load, 5x1 portrait mode has limited driver support,
Instead of cherry picking games to review we have decided to run our regular HTL benchmark suite and added 3 of the latest DX11 games that claim full 5x1 Eyefinity support out of the box. We feel that this gives a more realistic view of Eyefinity compa...
Abstract: Wanting to achieve the best gameplay experience possible is a worthy goal for hardware enthusiasts that play video games. Enthusiasts try to obtain this by taking what they have and pushing the hardware to its limits in order to squeeze out every bit ...
Abstract: No matter how fast your CPU is and what graphics card you use, you are going to run short of performance sooner or later. Just start to play a movie in your media player, open a dozen websites in your browser, launch your favorite game in windowed mode...
Abstract: We’ve frequently criticized Nvidia for its predilection to developing exceedingly sophisticated single-processor graphics cards that often go too far ahead of their time. For example, the early versions of the G200 chip were manufactured on 65nm tech p...
Abstract: We’ve frequently criticized Nvidia for its predilection to developing exceedingly sophisticated single-processor graphics cards that often go too far ahead of their time. For example, the early versions of the G200 chip were manufactured on 65nm tech p...
Although the Radeon HD 6990 does indeed break new records, this isn’t always a positive thing unfortunately. While obviously part of the line of previous generation bi-GPU Radeons, the high energy and noise issues on previous generation cards are ampli...
Apr 10 2011 - The AMD Radeon HD 6990 is arguably the fastest graphics card on the market today. With two GPUs and 4GB of GDDR5 memory, the HD 6990 handles even the most intensive games with ease. Featuring enhanced heat dissipation with dual vapor cha...
Abstract: I'll be blunt: the AMD Radeon HD 6990 is a beast. Soundly outpacing the best that Nvidia has to offer (at the moment), this dual-GPU juggernaut -- previously codenamed "Antilles" -- clambers to the top of our graphics card heap by serving up the most r...
Abstract: Every time that a new series of graphics cards is presented, it’s merely a matter of time before multi-GPU solutions are presented to be the cream of the crop of the current product gamma. These models don’t stay on the market for long, nor do they shi...
