Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | 14:00 GMT

AMD Radeon HD 6990 unveiled, and it’s rather large

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AMD’s corporate VP and general manager of its GPU division, Matt Skynner, whipped out something rather large during the firm’s Asia Pacific Fusion Tech Day, and that rather large something was the dual-Cayman GPU Radeon HD 6990.

As you see in the picture above, the massive graphic monster, codenamed Antilles, contains a single DVI output and four mini DisplayPorts, 6-pin and 8-pin connectors, and is the size of a forearm, according to HardwareZone. Considering a regular sized forearm on a person is 12-inches, that should give you an idea of just how large this thing is. If not, whip out a ruler and that’s the length of the beast.

No actual details on the card were revealed during the event, as all descriptions of it came from just looking at the thing, but according to various reports and leaks, the card contains 3840 stream processors and has 4GB of GDDR5 memory clocking in at 4.80GHz.

Pricing was not mentioned either, but it will likely run you around the $500 mark which would be in-line with similar cards from competitors like Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 580.

It’s slated for release sometime during Q1 this year.

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#1

StolenGlory
27/01/11, 2:02 pm

Ooooh very nice.

What is your verdict Erth?

#2

Erthazus
27/01/11, 2:05 pm

@1 It’s fucking huge :D

#3

Mike Honcho
27/01/11, 2:07 pm

Looks like a friggin’ game console …. that there’s a huge bitch.

#4

Suikoden Fan
27/01/11, 2:09 pm

does that mean we are gonna need even bigger pc cases?

#5

Gekidami
27/01/11, 2:15 pm

#6

Michael O’Connor
27/01/11, 2:18 pm

@2 That’s what she said.

#7

Patrick Garratt
27/01/11, 2:27 pm

@5 – :D

#8

freedoms_stain
27/01/11, 3:22 pm

Holy fuck, I hope there’s special computer lube for getting that beast in.

#9

JimFear-666
27/01/11, 3:23 pm

will it fit in a normal computer?

#10

Phoenixblight
27/01/11, 3:30 pm

@9

Uh hell no. Not unless you are gonna remove some parts like all or most of them.

#11

Dralen
27/01/11, 4:49 pm

@10 I think my computer would just say “Ouch” if I tried to put that thing in.

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