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
In our tests, the performance gain by having the switch set at “1” (overclocked BIOS) instead of “2” (default BIOS) was up to 8%. We don’t know why users buying this video card would leave video card at its default BIOS since you can have a bit higher ...
Just when we thought the graphics market was cooling down, AMD's Radeon HD 6990 4GB has gone and set things alight once again. Its two Caymen XT GPUs simply deliver phenomenal performance, resoundingly beating the GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB in almost all of ou...
Extreme Performance, Playable 5-way Eyefinity From a Single Card, 4GB On-Board, Overclocked At The Flip of a Switch
High Power Consumption, Pricey, A Little Loud Under Load
AMD Radeon HD 6990The AMD Radeon HD 6990 is an extreme graphics card in every sense of the word. The card's performance is obviously extreme, as is its power consumption, its output configuration, and its price. AMD is setting the MSRP at whopping $699. T...
Very expensive. Power-ravenous, loud under load. Requires two eight-pin power adapters, high-level PSU. Too long for some cases.
If you want the absolute best in enthusiast-class video cards, then you want the AMD Radeon HD 6990. But be prepared to pay for it—in more ways than one. Buy it now...
(Relatively) Energy Efficient, Unparalleled performance
Price keeps it strictly for ultra-enthusiasts
AMD’s dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990 is the world’s fastest single graphics card. But with massive power comes a massive price tag. AMD Radeon HD 6990: Serious Inquiries Only, Please AMD Radeon HD 6990 Review, by Nate Ralph March 8, 2011 I'll be blunt: the A...
' page, but with a product such as AMD's Radeon HD 6990, a section like this almost writes itself. As discovered throughout all of our testing, the HD 6990 has become the fastest graphics card available, and by quite a wide margin. That's not to say th...
Semantics are always important. Precise wording can be the difference between the truth and a lie, when to the average person you're saying the same thing.For example, if I now say the HD6990 is the fastest single GPU on the planet, that's not strictly tr...
The AMD Radeon HD 6990 provided an enjoyable gameplay experience in Eyefinity. We were able to play at 5760x1200 in many games with all the game features turned on. At $699 the 6990 is a bit too pricey. The Radeon HD 6970 video cards are falling in pri...
AMD has a lot riding on the success of the HD 6990 as they have maintained the performance crown since the release of the HD 5970. To maintain their title AMD built their latest dual GPU graphics card around a 375W TDP, which allowed them to use dual ...
Published: 2011-03-07, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
With a total of just seven games tested, we can ruthlessly boil down the Radeon HD 6990 and its competition to a simple price-performance scatter plot, like so: We've taken the results from the highest resolution or most intensive setting of each game te...
