(Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) (Image credit: Tom's Hardware) If you want some in-depth analysis of what AMD’s Antilles represented at the time, please check out our 16-page review from March 2011.
You may like The GPU benchmarks hierarchy 2026 The Nvidia GeForce3 launched 25 years ago Nvidia dominates gaming GPU market with 95 percent share as sales of AMD Radeon graphics plummet to a historical low of 5 percent Our test suite would embrace a slew of DirectX 11 titles. Most readers will be familiar with the F1, Battlefield, and Metro franchises, which featured in our tests. If you still play any of these classics, compare the results from the HD 6990 with what you can achieve using your modern GPU. Bonus points: Can your iGPU beat the Quad-CrossFire configuration of the HD 6990 in Crysis ?
Watch On Above, Tom's Hardware’s Editor Emeritus, Chris Angelini, performs an AMD Radeon HD 6990 4GB noise test.
As we have already hinted, Tom’s Hardware wasn’t impressed by the heat, power consumption, and noise during the Radeon HD 6990 tests. Moreover, we thought, as an alternative, that a pair of Radeon HD 6970 s sacrificed nothing except space in your case.
A couple of weeks later, Nvidia replied with its noticeably quieter dual-GPU GeForce GTX 590 , but it couldn’t quite manage to usurp the Radeon HD 6990.
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