On the two Cayman GPU coming to the front to the Radeon 6970 and 6950 are used to unite on a graphics card, AMD must exceed the usual specifications – and have used all of four months longer than planned. Now AMD Radeon HD6990, which took the first card is already in the reference designs from chip manufacturers, two eight-pin power connector. At each port PCIe, can – according to the standard – add 150 watts of electricity. Together with 75 Watt, which provides the necessary x16 slot available is 375 watts as possible.


Specifications for PCI Express requires a maximum of 300 watts for the card. Even a computer with new AMD graphics card can be applied in accordance with the engineer as a PCI Express device. Collateral for the function card, AMD itself. In any case, as long as users have a built-in overclocking feature of AMD Radeon HD6990 not overstretch. Through a switch on the card can be activated even for the high bar – and then perhaps in accordance with AMD, 450-500 watts. So thousands of graphics workstations come with less power. AMD Radeon HD6990 price of $699, but still do not have details of the official release date for this device.