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Antilles, Radeon HD 6990 is Q1 2011

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Dual chip Radeon HD 6000

We got confirmation that Radeon HD6990, AMD's dual-chip board codenamed Antilles won't surface until Q1 2011, and we know that we've said before. This is an update. Despite original plans to launch the dual-GPU card based on Northern Islands in Q4 2010, it looks like AMD has decided to postpone this product till Q1 2011.

We don’t know if this is a business decision or that they have some issues but it doesn’t look like we will see Nvidia's dual chip card this year either.

AMD's graphics partners are not happy as they will miss the Xmas shopping spree before these cards arrive, but traditionally this part of market will wait for its product as a single chip is simply not an option for them.

You can only imagine how hot these card can end up as they will have two massive chips to power, but I guess this market will forgive the slight noise as long as the card perform as they are expected.

Cayman-based Radeon HD 6970 and HD 6950 should be the last cards to launch in 2010 and everything else follows next year.
 
I can't imagine buying either company's dual-GPU card this round, with all of the great deals on the current/previous gen cards out there right now.

How can you beat the price/performance of 2X470s, 2X5870s, etc?
 
OCGuy said:
I can't imagine buying either company's dual-GPU card this round, with all of the great deals on the current/previous gen cards out there right now.

How can you beat the price/performance of 2X470s, 2X5870s, etc?
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Problem is the consumers who want to drive three monitors or a single 30". A pair of 460's, 5870's, or 6870's would be great but they lack the needed vram. Look at the Crysis min FPS numbers for Xfire/SLI from the Anandtech review as evidence. The 470 and 480 do fine because they have more vram but they're too hot and loud with two of them in the system IMO.

A new dual card from either company would be great if it's got 3-4GB of memory and decent thermals. The only other options at the moment are a 4GB 5970, Xfire 2GB 5870s, or a pair of 570/580s, all of which are pretty spendy.
 
OCGuy said:
I can't imagine buying either company's dual-GPU card this round, with all of the great deals on the current/previous gen cards out there right now.

How can you beat the price/performance of 2X470s, 2X5870s, etc?
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Heck I think a single 580 is monster enough. No worries about scaling or profiles (or lack of profiles).
 
happy medium said:
Too me, with the 6950/70 release date at Dec. 15th (as of now) they missed X-mas with these cards also.
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NV look like they are missing Christmas with the GTX580 as well.
One UK website has 2 in stock (as in, 2 cards, not cards from 2 manufacturers, MSI cards), and the other 2 cards they do have listed are ETA January 4th and 5th.

GTX 570's are all pre-order with ETA 11th December at the moment.

Another website has 5 GTX580s in stock (5 cards from one manufacturer, again MSI) with every other model listed as pre-order.
So while NV may have "launched" some cards already, it looks like they are also having stock issues.

Newegg had something like 20 available across 3 models yesterday for the GTX580.
Curretly they list 2 models as available, but only one can actually be added to cart (MSI).
Seems like MSI is the only manufacturer which has any quantity of GTX580s available anywhere.
 
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while it's true that 580's are low on stock, I'd bet that a lot of that is due to the ZERO availability of 6970. if amd would actually launch cayman then demand would level out for high end nvidia cards and there would be enough stock.

interesting that all the available cards are msi.
 
Elfear said:
Problem is the consumers who want to drive three monitors or a single 30". A pair of 460's, 5870's, or 6870's would be great but they lack the needed vram. Look at the Crysis min FPS numbers for Xfire/SLI from the Anandtech review as evidence. The 470 and 480 do fine because they have more vram but they're too hot and loud with two of them in the system IMO.

A new dual card from either company would be great if it's got 3-4GB of memory and decent thermals. The only other options at the moment are a 4GB 5970, Xfire 2GB 5870s, or a pair of 570/580s, all of which are pretty spendy.
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You forgot the gtx460 2gb? 230$
Sli and overclock two of these puppies and your set.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-128-_-Product
 
happy medium said:
No they are selling every gtx580 card they can make because of no competition from AMD but you can still get one if you want one.



There are plenty of gtx570's also.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...CE&PageSize=20
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You can get one, just.
Limit of 2 from Newegg.
Amazon.com has 5 in stock.

One model on each site is available (although Palit on Amazon).
I'm not saying they are not available at all, just that they won't be soon enough.

Somehow when the HD5870 etc was barely available, that was them being short on supply, but with NV it's fine and there are no supply issues, is that right?
The GTX570 is fine. GTX580 is not.
 
Lonyo said:
Somehow when the HD5870 etc was barely available, that was them being short on supply, but with NV it's fine and there are no supply issues, is that right?
The GTX570 is fine. GTX580 is not.
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They were having problems with 40nm yields then. THE 580 IS SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES.
 
happy medium said:
They were having problems with 40nm yields then. THE 580 IS SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES.
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THE 5870 WERE SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES TOO.

Seriously? Sure there were issues with the 40 nm yields but it wasn't as dire as your making it.
Also the GTX 580 is good but don't treat it as the second coming of Jesus..
 
badb0y said:
THE 5870 WERE SELLING LIKE HOTCAKES TOO.

Seriously? Sure there were issues with the 40 nm yields but it wasn't as dire as your making it.
Also the GTX 580 is good but don't treat it as the second coming of Jesus..
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Yeah, after a new generation, 2 Flagship releases, they still can't beat the 14month old 5970?

AMD's domination looks to continue from 2009 into 2011.
 
Skurge said:
Yeah, after a new generation, 2 Flagship releases, they still can't beat the 14month old 5970?

AMD's domination looks to continue from 2009 into 2011.
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AMD is on a wining streak. That looks to continue for awhile. Especially if the GTX 460 rebadge does not show up till next year.

😛 Couldn't resist.
 
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