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AMD Radeon HD 6990 4GB Dual GPU Video Card Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: Radeon HD 6990 - Antilles
Date: Mon, Mar 07, 2011 - 11:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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3DMark 11

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark

3DMark 11 is the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark for measuring the 3D graphics performance of gaming PCs. 3DMark 11 uses a native DirectX 11 engine designed to make extensive use of all the new features in DirectX 11, including tessellation, compute shaders and multi-threading.

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Settings

Since Futuremark has recently released 3DMark11 we decided to run the benchmark at both performance and extreme presets to see how our hardware will run.

3DMark 11 Extreme Benchmark Results:

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Results

3DMark 11 Performance Benchmark Results:

Futuremark 3DMark 11 Benchmark Results

Much like many of our benchmarks today, the AMD Radeon HD 6990 fell short of the performance of a pair of AMD Radeon HD 6970's in CrossfireX in FutureMark 3DMark 11. Running the Extreme Preset the AMD Radeon HD 6990 was ~5.3% behind the AMD Radeon HD 6970's for the overall score as well as the GPU score. The performance preset shows a much closer margin for the overall score, only 77 3DMarks or .8%. The GPU score tells us a different tale though. The Radeon HD 6970's gave us a GPU score of 9737, while the AMD Radeon HD 6990 gives us a GPU score of 9317. That's a difference of 420 3DMarks or 4.3%

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Review Index
Page 1 - Antilles Arrives with 2 GPUs and 4GB of GDDR5
Page 2 - A Closer Look At The Radeon HD 6990
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 5 - Just Cause 2
Page 6 - Metro 2033
Page 7 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 8 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 9 - 3DMark 11
Page 10 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 11 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 12 - Temperature Testing
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Radeon HD 6990 Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts & Conclusions