AMDs 6990M, fastest mobile GPU there is!!?

[StrangerGuy]

It is marketing's job to get you to buy their product, not educate you. *As long as they aren't lying, purposely skewing the comparisons, or misrepresenting theirs or the competitor's product, no fowl.



*All of which is actually lying. Just some people use a far to narrow definition of lying.

Marketing is a fair game as long as it's not those underhanded bait-and-switchesque stuff. Anyone who gets suckered in by marketing in the age of internet isn't exactly bright to start with.

 

[timma]

it's look good,and have 6 screen output support for notebook.:biggrin:

 

[-Slacker-]

Between them and Intel's processor naming right now, how the heck do you know what is going on unless you are a tech nerd like we are???

By doing a little research on the product that you're going to pay your own hard earned money on?

It doesn't take a genius to realize that there's a higher tier of cards (the 6900s), which means the 6800s aren't the successors of the 5800s and, therefore, probably not much faster, if any at all. The price tag might be the second clue.

If you buy a barts gpu thinking you're getting a state-of-the-art enthusiast video card for the price of a mid range card, you might as well click on those "you're our 999.999th costumer!! You've won a free trip to our organ-farming facility in pakistan I mean Hawaii" mail adds. And you would deserve what's coming to you In both instances (obviously I'm not talking about you in particular).

 

[ElFenix]

"Unlike the desktop 6990, we’re also not talking about a dual-GPU in a single card solution. Instead, the HD 6990M will be a full Barts core, with all 1120 shaders enabled"

It doesnt seem like the card is what you think it is, but will still be a powerful mobile solution.

does that make it a 6850/70?

 

[wahdangun]

wow, is there official benchmark yet ?

 

[rahulkadukar]

I recently saw some numbers on the http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m18x/596922-i-have-6990m-cfx-already-but.html Notebook Review - Alienware M18X forums for the Crossfire 6990M and it suggests that this is indeed a very good card and NV charging $700 extra is just pointless, only diehard NV users will pay that amount. (Maybe even they won't )