Sapphire Radeon HD 6990

Sapphire Radeon HD 6990 Review

Back in November when AMD brought OCC out to LA for the 6 series launch event, the HD 6990 Antilles was not much more than a footnote in the presentation as an all new "Future Product". A product we were told not to talk about as it was under NDA with more information to be forthcoming. Here we are a few months later with that product ready for review. Today we have the Sapphire HD 6990. AMD has held onto the single card performance title since the introduction of the HD 5970 while NVIDIA steadily chipped away at that lead as they refined their Fermi architecture to the point of delivering a card (in the form of the GTX 580) that took back the single GPU card title that AMD had hoped to capture with the HD 6970. Being just "good enough" is no longer acceptable and with this launch AMD has pushed the envelope in terms of the thermals and power consumption to make the HD 6990 a point of difference and deliver game changing performance much the same way the HD 4870x2 and HD 5970 did.