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AMD Radeon HD 6990 - The New King of Graphics

By Kenny Yeo - 19 Mar 2011

Crysis Warhead & Far Cry 2 Results

Crysis Warhead & Far Cry 2 Results

On to the first of our real world gaming applications, Crysis Warhead, we noted that in default mode, the Radeon HD 6990 continues to trail two Radeon HD 6970 in Crossfire configuration. However, it was able to match two GeForce GTX 570 in SLI, and it outperformed the old Radeon HD 5970 by close to 20% and a single Radeon HD 6970 by more than 60%.

On Far Cry 2, the cards were so powerful that the results show that they have been bottlenecked by the CPU, even with 8x anti-aliasing enabled. And mind you, ours is a pretty high-end Core i7-975. It just goes to show that these cards need to be paired with a sufficiently powerful system to be able to fully maximize and extract every ounce of their performance. That said, the GeForce cards put up a good show as usual and the GTX 570 in SLI was comfortably well ahead of the Radeon HD 6990.

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