Battle for next "Dual GPU"

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AMD ATi new 6870 & 6850 card was alreay out there, but there was many controversy Technical Marketing Director Nick Stam explained that Catalyst drivers were sneakily sacrificing image quality to gain a performance advantage over GeForce GPUs. The result in terms of performance is that AMD cards will gain an approximate ten per cent advantage by using the lower quality texture-filtering.

Now Nvidia and AMD had a rumor that they already prepare for the next battle at Dual GPU, Nvidia is ready with dual GF110 accelerator, possible they named GTX595. It has 3GB, 3D Vision Surround ready, as far this is a good respond from Nvidia to ATI Dual GPU Radeon HD 5970.

Rumours are suggesting that the card is pretty much ready to ship, but that NVIDIA is holding it back with another roumor ATI Radeon HD 6990. A poster on the 3DCenter forums has a photo of what appears to be a slide describing AMD's upcoming HD 6990 graphics card - codenamed Antilles - giving us the first hints of what it might be capable of.

According to the slide, the card will have 3,840 stream processors, 4GB GDDR5 and be capable of providing a simply breathtaking amount of raw compute-power. At the very least, this should deliver a pretty significant performance boost over the 3,200-core HD 5970. All this will fit within a 300W TDP with idle power dropping as low as 30W, while outputs will purportedly include a pair of DVI ports and three Mini DisplayPort connectors for five-monitor Eyefinity gaming.

We still blank about this slide, ATI Radeon roadmaps will apear next year, will keep in touch with this news.