PC gamers hanging off the edge of their seats for legitimate specs for AMD’s recently announced 6990 dual-GPU graphics card can now be at rest. Turkish tech site, Donanimhaber has the goods. Where they got them is a guess at this point seeing as how I don’t understand an ounce of Turkish.
As for the 6990 â€" AMD’s new card of all cards features 3,072 ALU stream processors, 192 texture units, 64 ROPs/256 Z-Stencil, 4GB GDDR5 memory, 256bit/5.0Gbps bus, an 830MHz core clock, and up to 5.1 Teraflops of computational power. While you wrap your head around that, make note of the 4x miniDisplayPort and 1x DVI port located on the back of the card as well as a unique switch to flip between the 6990′s dual-BIOS configuration â€" default and overclock specific settings for the true enthusiast. AMD claims up to 67% greater performance than a single Nvidia GTX 580.
Naturally, a card of this size and requiring a grand total of 450w when under stress needs some beefy design. A full-length, dual-chamber cooling configuration is employed to keep the 6990 from melting. Furthermore, power is provided via two (8-pin + 8-pin) large 8-pin connectors.
While the urge to pick up a 6990 or two (official price still unknown) for ~$800-$900 in some dark corners online is hefty, Nvidia has their own dual-gpu GTX 590 coming later this month. Our opinion â€" wait!
But while you wait, feel free to check out the uber gallery full of official slides detailing every once of the AMD 6990 after the jump…
**Images belong to Donanimhaber
Source: DonanimhaberVia: Overclock.net
