It came, it saw and it conquer! That’s the same story for the AMD HD 6990 video-card now formally called as “world’s fastest video card for 2011” beating its previous brother, the AMD HD 5970, called as ATI at that time, packing with a monstrous benchmark for a monstrous price as well.
First of all, all the reviews we’ve gathered from Tom’s Hardware all the way to HotHardware are confirming this is the type video-card you would want to buy if you want to play any type of video-games this year, in extended resolution with a ridiculously maxed-out settings for its graphics quality – or just for that bragging rights against your NVIDIA buddies.
Just to be more specific, the HD 6990 is a dual-card GPU so by doing a crossfire-build on your rig, you’ll be able to achieve 4 GPU under your computer a.k.a Quad-Crossfire, which is quite amazing if you’ll ask me! Get all of its specifications here.
As a Cayman type of video-card, you’ll be needing a compatible motherboard, something which isn’t really cheap at all. And while this video-card easily beats the NVIDIA GTX 580 like a rugged toy, its power comes with a great cost. Like all the reviews, its main cons is about eating 375W TDP of power, so you might as well want to bring an equally amped power-supply to handle its needs. Also, you can’t deny that it’s a bit loud when working, which is obvious because we are running four GPUs all at the same time.
And lastly, the price for this one is the most expensive of all video-cards today tagged at 699 USD, which fits its model number precisely! Then again, you wouldn’t mind that if it can run 4GB of GDDR5 power with 3k stream processors and 64ROPs, matching with 830MHz core clockspeed that can easily be OCed via its dual-BIOS switch whenever you want, right? — so Nvidia GTX 590, where art thou?
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