Introducing “the World’s Fastest Graphics card”, AMD’s flagship HD 6990
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Alien vs Predators DX11 benchmark is a stand alone bench that as the name says is only for DX11 cards. It is more demanding than actually playing the game generally. First we bench at 1920×1200 with maxed out settings plus 2xAA.
The GTX 580 is the fastest single GPU card leaving the GTX 480 to trade blows with the GTX 570 while the GTX 560 Ti sits in between the HD 6950 and the HD 6970. Our GTX 560 Ti SLI sits in between HD 6870 and HD 5870 CrossFire while HD 6970 CrossFire solidly beats the HD 6990. Now we test at 1680×1050 and 2xAA.
Again our top cards are not being pushed like last year so we up the resolution to 2560×1600 and add 8xAA.
The SLI’d GTX 580s edge TriFire-X3 while HD 6990 falls barely short of CrossFired HD 6970s.
We see the GTX 580 take a solid performance lead followed closely by the GTX 570 and the GTX 480. The GTX 560 Ti sits almost exactly in between the HD 6870 and the HD 6950 in terms of performance in this game benchmark. This time, GTX 560 Ti SLI is still in-between HD 6870 and HD 5870 CrossFired performance. Again, the SLI’d GTX 460s beat our single fastest video cards.
This is soooo intense, the scaling is near perfect and the price is somewhat reasonable. I’m still not sure about overclocking that thing, it’s already damn powerful 😛
I wonder how Nvidia will respond with their 590.
Good Job Poppin! *claps*
This is the holy grail of hd 6990 reviews!!!! All hail the king!!!!
Dang…that’s one IMBAH review right there.
Thanks for the epic review 😀 .
Thank-you all!
Let me make a big clarification. At the AMD presentation we were told that simply flipping the switch doesn’t violate the warranty.
That is technically correct. However *operating* the card in the 2nd OD position voids your warranty and makes what they told us at the meeting double-speak. If I had known this, I would have only tested it in the stock (warrantied) position.
WARNING: If you break the yellow sticker that covers the switch, you are NOT warrantied. However, each AMD Graphic Partner may have a different policy and I’d highly recommend that you get it in writing from them before you touch the switch if you are considering buying a HD 6990 (and care about overclocking and retaining your warranty).
I will update my article to make this very clear and to add another negative to the conclusion. All of my future testing will be done with this card in the non-overclocked (under warranty) position.
Hey apoppin, will there be a 11.4 driver review? I noticed that all other Radeon cards were tested with 11.2s and according to AMD there have been some improvements for the HD 6000 series with the new drivers.
Of course. As soon as WHQL 11.4 is released. 11.4 is a beta driver.
However, we did use 11.4 beta for the HD 6990 as it is the only release driver. And for comparison’s sake, we used our HD 6970 with 11.4 beta also – and also because we used it together with HD 6990 for TriFire-X3.
If you’d like to see the performance increase for HD 6970 with the new beta drivers, check out our 11.2 vs 11.1a Performance Analysis – we used the same settings as for the HD 6990 launch article:
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=24120
You can see significant increases for HD 6970 with the new beta driver over the latest WHQL driver, 11.2. Probably there are also increases with the 6800 series.
We tested the rest of the AMD Graphics cards – except as noted above for HD 6990 and HD 6970 – with the latest WHQL driver as we usually do.
Thanks! Looking forward to it!
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