HIS Radeon HD 6990

HIS Radeon HD 6990 4GB Review

It has been a few months since the AMD Radeon HD 6990 initially launched. Since that time, a number of AMD's board partners have launched their own Radeon HD 6990 cards, but as is typically the case with the first wave of products based on a new GPU, they all conform to AMD's reference design, save for a water-cooled card from PowerColor. While most of the Radeon HD 6990 cards on the market today are fundamentally very similar, we thought it would be a good idea to check out a retail-ready 6990 using AMD's latest drivers to see how well the card performs (and behaves) with updated software. To that end, we got our hands on an HIS Radeon HD 6990 card and have put it up against NVIDIA's best to see how things sake out in a handful of games and applications. We're not going to rehash all of the low-level technical details regarding the Radeon HD 6990 in this article, however. If you'd like a refresher on the Radeon HD 6990's inner working, we'd suggest taking a look at our launch coverage here. Checking our coverage of the AMD Cayman GPU would also be a good idea; those details can be found in our Radeon HD 6900 Series coverage here.