$699 Radeon HD 6990 graphics card announced by AMD

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: PC / Laptop,

For gamers and enthusiasts who aren't willing to settle for just an ordinary video card—you know, the kind with only one GPU—the Radeon HD 6990, which AMD is releasing today, could be the next must-have product.

As the 6000-series replacement for 2009's ATI Radeon HD 5970, the 6990 boasts a pair of powerful graphics processing units (GPUs), and some of the speediest specs on the market: compute power of 5.1 teraflops, a core clock speed of 830 MHz, 3,072 stream processors, 192 texture units, 64 ROPs, and 4GB of GDDR5 frame buffer running a long a 5-Gbps, 256-bit memory path. For adventurous users who want even faster frame rates, a switch on the card itself can automatically overclock the card to still-higher levels of performance.

Click to continue reading $699 Radeon HD 6990 graphics card announced by AMD

• Tools:
• Permalink
• Share on Twitter
• Share on Facebook
• Comments (0)
• Email this story