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AMD Radeon HD 6990 - The New King of Graphics

By Kenny Yeo - 19 Mar 2011

Dawn of War 2 & Battlefield Bad Company 2 Results

Dawn of War 2 & Battlefield Bad Company 2 Results

It was pretty much the same story with Dawn of War 2, as many of cards achieved very comparable scores in the region of around 77 to 79 frames per second. Being an RTS game, Dawn of War 2 is easily bound by CPU performance, especially if there’s a large number of units on screen at the same time, and this reaffirms the fact that to get the best out of these high-end graphics cards, you need an equally powerful CPU. At the same time, it goes to show that you don't need to be worried of having a super fast GPU to run such RTS games.

The Radeon HD 6990 pulled ahead on the lower 1650 x 1050 resolution, and recorded frame rates that were about 12% higher than two Radeon HD 6970 in CrossFire, and was about 20% faster than both the GeForce GTX 580 and GTX 570 in SLI. On the higher 1920 x 1200 resolution, the two Radeon HD 6970 in CrossFire managed to claw itself back and put itself almost on a par with the Radeon HD 6990. On a whole, the Radeon HD 6990 was about 75% faster than a single Radeon HD 6970. 

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