The AMD Radeon HD 6990 Dual GPU Card is Huge

[f-14]

bigger is better right?. reminds me of the daughter boards and 90's video cards length wise.
on the bright side you put this in the first 16x PCIe slot and can vent it out the front of the case bad thing is it will mean putting in another fan above your front panel intake and for those of you who can't will either have to get a new case or break out your modding skills and put in a side panel fan close to the end of the card.

 

[f-14]

oh also i bet there will be a gtx 590 very very soon

 

[dragonsqrrl]

[citation][nom]f-14[/nom]oh also i bet there will be a gtx 590 very very soon[/citation]
Here's some leaked information on the GTX590 if you're interested...

http://guru3d.com/news/geforce-gtx-590-dualgpu-card-to-arrive-late-february/

Rumors point to a late February release. The specs look pretty similar to what I was expecting, dual gf110, 3GB GDDR5, basically two underclocked GTX580's.

 

[slimbones]

Yer all wrong. That guy is only 3 feet tall.

 

[yyk71200]

I honestly doubt Nvidia will make a dual GPU card with Fermi. Too much power consumption even with GF110. It is possible to make a dual card, but it should be noticeably faster than 580 which will require a lot of power for a single PCIe 16x slot. Maybe with Kepler.

EDIT. I see there is a leak that it may be true after all. However, considering that the GPUs will be significantly down clocked, it may not be that much faster. AMD may not have to down clock that much due to lower power consumption.

 

[joelmartinez]

That needs to be made with tri-fans or maybe even quad to cool that beast down... wonder if it will fit in my HAF 922, maybe with modding

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

Now thats a really large and expensive paper wieght

 

[damasvara]

[citation][nom]pudgychicken[/nom]Well now it's AMD's turn to have a GTX 480 experience lol. It'll perform moderately well, be hot as balls, and sound like a jet engine under full load.[/citation]Wanna bet on that?

 

[alextheblue]

[citation][nom]kcorp2003[/nom]thats what you get when your with 40nm. better switch to 28nm with globalfoundries by Q3 2011[/citation]
They wanted to be on a smaller process by now, but TSMC has been hitting problem after problem. So yeah, they might have to have GF fab some of their GPUs in the near future. TSMC can't be counted on, first they had major yield issues with their 40nm node (it hit Nvidia hard too) and now the issues with rolling out a new node on schedule.

 

[Darkv1]

That card is immense...I must obtain one...

 

[i_am_aronman]

[citation][nom]pudgychicken[/nom]Well now it's AMD's turn to have a GTX 480 experience lol. It'll perform moderately well, be hot as balls, and sound like a jet engine under full load.[/citation]
Don't jump to conclusions it might run better than you think, but we won't really know until benchmarks. Come on AMD hurry up!

 

[razzb3d]

[citation][nom]visinertia[/nom]That's what she said[/citation]

Look! it's a BIG BLACK p... video card

 

[st1ngr4y]

hey i wonder if they will make this in a slim version?

 

[pocketdrummer]

[citation][nom]mindless728[/nom]Its Huge Buffalo HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE (anyone from western NY will hate me for this)an a more serious note, i don't care if the card is huge, i have a decent case (as will most people here who buy this card) and will get to show it off "hey, look at the GPU brick in my case"[/citation]

There are very good cases that don't allow boards that long. Hell, I have a Lian-Li and the GTX 570 was a squeeze. I think we need a form factor change for graphics cards. There's not enough room to cool them anymore.

 

[demonhorde665]

DROOL ..... seriously if i could get one of these i'd move my hard drive cage to the bottom of my pc to make it fit (i have a case that has a detachable hard drinve cage) but damnnn teh cost ... i might do better jsut to upgrade my pc

 

[demonhorde665]

i meant upgrade to an entirely new pc

 

[tmc]

2011 radeon 6990, meet the 1983 dynatac:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC

need to get some thermal cooling or multi core on a single gpu going b/c the card to too damn long.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Interesting is that CPUs get smaller as time goes by (a Intel 2600K is smaller than a Core i7 920 but has more transistors) but GPUs just keep growing....

I remember when the GPUs were only a bit longer than than the AGP slot.

 

[tychoblu]

cue 2001 theme music

set stage: 10 geek monkeys beating last month's video cards against the ground

change scene, blazing saddles: "excuse me while i whip this out"

 

[reyshan]

[citation][nom]pudgychicken[/nom]Well now it's AMD's turn to have a GTX 480 experience lol. It'll perform moderately well, be hot as balls, and sound like a jet engine under full load.[/citation]

I don't think it will be hot as balls. It has a vapor chamber which does better than a heatsink with some copper heatpipes. Two 6950 or 6970 will perform more than moderately.

 

[soundefx]

I want to see what game will bring this monster to its knees.

 

[jfem]

This should be good seeing that scaling on the new Radeons has improved a lot.

 

[deecrutch]

Man, you could DECK somebody with that thing! Sheesh!

Lexington Steele thinks that thing is huge!

 

[Guest]

And again i find myself loving the Full Tower Case. I've not yet found a card that won't fit.

 

[binoyski]

I hope two of this will fit in the new CM Elite 371 w/ professional sound dampening padding from frozencpu!