Radeon HD 6990 Anchors 2011 High-End GPU Era
Tom's Hardware revisits AMD’s Radeon HD 6990, released in March 2011, on its 15th anniversary. The retrospective recalls the dual-Cayman XT design with 4GB GDDR5, 3,072 combined stream processors, and a 375W TDP, noting heat, noise, and power criticisms and a subsequent quieter Nvidia GTX 590 reply. The piece underscores trade-offs between raw dual-GPU performance and practical thermals and power.
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