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    News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Company VP flaunts monstrous Antilles card at Fusion launch event.
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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Hybrid crossfire just seems so pointless to me. What in percentage terms can an onboard GPU add to a fully fledged GPU? 2-3% after overheads? You'd get more from driver enhancement...
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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    The only benefit I can see is power consumption. Reverting to the on-board gfx when not using the discrete solution allowing it to be powered down. Other than that, I couldn't agree more... Just an additional level of complexity and another point of failure to add to a system...
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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    wouldnt of been able to see it without that green arrow


    why is he holding a PS2 anyway

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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Quote Originally Posted by HalloweenJack View Post
    why is he holding a PS2 anyway
    Are you sure it's not a VCR cassette?

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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Don't forget the number of SPs on the 68xx+ cards is due to VLIW4 rather than VLIW5. So divide by 4 on 68xx, divide by 5 on 5xxx to get a true comparable number.

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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Quote Originally Posted by GheeTsar View Post
    Are you sure it's not a VCR cassette?
    Nah I think that may be Beatamax??
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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    How many PCIE slots needed for that monster! I shudder to think!

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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    How many PCIE slots needed for that monster! I shudder to think!
    I would imagine only 1 with further 3 down obstructed by its size...

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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Why is that guy walking around holding an old school "Reel to Reel" player or is that a NEO GEO?
    Does it come with a 20 inch box fan cause that thing is HUGE!

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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Quote Originally Posted by OilSheikh View Post
    How many PCIE slots needed for that monster! I shudder to think!
    Asus are releasing a 3 slot GTX 560.
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    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Wow now I can play all my games at 1 million fps.

    Also I saw the picture and thought it was the return on the VHS

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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Anyone else find it stupid how things are getting bigger in volume area, rather than smaller, especially considering the fabrication process is getting smaller O_o
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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Quote Originally Posted by Oobie- View Post
    Anyone else find it stupid how things are getting bigger in volume area, rather than smaller, especially considering the fabrication process is getting smaller O_o
    My GTX 460 is intrinsically faster than my GTX 260 yet is about 2" smaller IIRC.
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    for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.

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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Quote Originally Posted by Terbinator View Post
    My GTX 460 is intrinsically faster than my GTX 260 yet is about 2" smaller IIRC.
    Unlike AMD, it seems Nvidia has the ability to engineer sane length PCBs nowadays.

    I cannot understand why the HD6870 and HD6950 have such long PCBs?

    An HD5850 is shorter than an HD6870 and both have the same TDP too.


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    Re: News - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 6990 sneaks out of the lab

    Ignore what women say, length does matter ok?! (although this one is more than sorted for girth as well!)

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