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As it turns out, besides its Antilles brand name, the chip itself can’t boast anything particularly special. The VLIW4 shader architecture is used as previously seen with other Radeon HD 6x00 series based solutions (ATI Radeon HD 6800: Generation Next?). According to AMD, the refined shader arrangement better addresses current and future workloads aimed at GPU part of your system.
The computing power that AMD Radeon HD 6990 capable of is astonishing and is marked at around 5.1 TFLOPs for single precision FP32 calculations and 1.27 TFLOPs for double precision FP64 workloads. If you are into big numbers, then 3072 ALUs is definitely a cool feature for you, although it is still a bit shy of the 3200 shader processes incorporated previously in ATI Radeon HD 5970 flagship product. Couple that with 192 texture units and 4 GB of GDDR5 boasting 5.0 Gbps data throughput and you are going to end up with a true masterpiece.
So, what Radeon HD 6990 really is: a breath-taking revolution or a logical evolution? Well, it may be really hard to judge just yet, as we have only seen the theoretical part. Let's waste no time and see for ourselves, what really lies behind the enormous black and red exterior.
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