Final Thoughts
The main aspect of this review was to show how each individual card performs in terms of benchmarks, games and real-world overclocking as well as giving a more indepth look at the card in way of a video.
After we looked at the Sapphire version of this card, a lot of users were interested in how noisy the 6990 can be and what it’s true performance is like first hand, to which we hope we’ve answered any questions and queries on that with this review.
Reference cards aren’t normally that widely available for the general consumer but can be found if shopped around for and are typically labeled by the retailer as a “value” model but with the Radeon 6990 there is no value about it as it’s one expensive monster of a card.
Sadly the card uses the same fan as the 6970 (albeit in a different location) meaning that once it gets going it sounds like it’s about to take off. Taking this into consideration if overclocking, it may put you off slightly and leave you to be running it at stock unless you get a custom cooling design or even plump for watercooling. For the average user however, you won’t want to be stripping your £500 dual GPU graphics card to have a bit of fun as it will likely void your warranty and leave you out of pocket incase anything goes wrong.
Overall it’s a big decision to make and an expensive one at that leaving you the choice of having amazing looking graphics in games but having a PC that sounds like a jet fighter plane. The decision is in your hands.
Pros:
- Fastest AMD graphics card in the world
- Astounding benchmark results
- Dual BIOS
- Full DX11 support
- Support for Eyefinity
- Overclocking headroom
Cons:
- Noisy
- Expensive
- Very lengthy card
- Massive power draw
- Can get very hot
We would like to thank AMD for supplying this sample
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