Rumor: Dual-GPU Radeon HD 6000 Card Slated for 2011 Release
Rumor: Dual-GPU Radeon HD 6000 Card Slated for 2011 Release
Posted 12/08/2010 at 10:17am
| by Paul Lilly
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News and rumor site Fudzilla claims to have received confirmation that AMD's dual-GPU Radeon HD 6990 videocard, otherwise known as "Antilles," won't show up on store shelves until the first quarter of 2011.
As the water cooler banter goes, AMD originally wanted to ship its dual-chip card before the end of the year, and if that's true, it raises of the question of why it's being postponed. It could be that AMD wants to fine tune the architecture and drivers, or maybe there's a problem that requires additional time to address. It's all speculation, with the only thing we know for sure (assuming Fudzilla's sources are solid) is that there won't be any Radeon HD 6990 cards in Santa's sleigh this year.
A recently leaked slide of the HD 6990 part reveals that the card will come with 3840 stream processors, 4GB of GDDR5 memory, and deliver up to 6.0TFLPS. Under load, the HD 6990 is supposed to draw a manageable 300W, and 30W when idle.
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bigsteve76
December 08, 2010 at 4:46pm
I wonder how well it will hold up against the Rage Fury Maxx.
aviaggio
December 08, 2010 at 4:26pm
AMD is probably taking their time to tweak the hell out of the card to make sure it not only spanks Nvidia, but spanks them HARD.
logicmaster2003
December 08, 2010 at 4:00pm
what will it do to GTX580 ? I really hope they'll drive the prices down on GTX580 and even the GTX480 which I want to get. Once again, I shall wait patiently for newer GPU to come out and thus making GTX480/580 affordable.
Many months ago I thought of upgrading my GTX260 to GTX460 -- good thing I didn't !! Cuz now GTX460 can be aquired for less than $150 ! Back then it would cost $250
Freemind2pointo
December 08, 2010 at 1:02pm
Does anyone remember when the ps3 came out and people were crapping their pants at how it had the ability to perform at 1 teraflop, and now we are reaching the point where cards are reaching 6 teraflops, this is rather impressive, as for its performance against the GTX 580, I think that it is a little unfair seeing as this is a dual gpu card whereas the GTX 580 is a single gpu. I say we wait till the 6970 comes out and then we compare, till then we shall just wait in awe.
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