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    New information about 6990M

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Cloudfire, Jun 18, 2011.

  1. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Couldn`t find any appropriate thread to put this in, so excuse me for opening a new one. :)

    Here is GPU-Z from 6970M
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    Here is GPU-Z from 6990M
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    Cloudfire, Jun 18, 2011
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    Image doesn't show up, I guess because you linked an attachment, no acces to it. Can you reupload it here?
     
    svl7, Jun 18, 2011
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  3. Cloudfire

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    Sorry, made a quick upload to tinypic instead
     
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    Lol, it seems they simply copied the picture form here, hahaha, destinymax got his hands on an ES version of the 6970m, I told him to flash the Dell vbios to unlock the additional shaders, that's the screenshot he posted afterwards :D
     
    svl7, Jun 18, 2011
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  5. Cloudfire

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    LOL I found it on a chinese site. I always consider them to be the original source of everything. Oh well :p

    I thought there was something strange though since it have the same clock on GPU and memory. They usually increase them some instead of adding more cores. Cores and Texture fillrate was the only thing that changed between the two GPUs.
     
    Cloudfire, Jun 18, 2011
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    Hehe, true, but in this case they simply copied the pic and put a watermark on it, lol.

    The 1120 shader 6970m ES uses quite a bit more power than the regular 6970m... will probably be the same for the 6990m.
     
    svl7, Jun 18, 2011
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  7. reflex99

    reflex99 Notebook Guru

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    could you really put 2 6970's in a laptop without the whole thing just melting o_O

    Whatever it is in, it must be huge.
     
    reflex99, Jun 18, 2011
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  8. Meaker@Sager

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    You can put 2x GTX485m in a notebook then you can put 2x HD6970.

    Also 2x 6970 != HD6990.

    The 6990 is rumoured (if it ever comes out) to be a fully unlocked blackcomb.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jun 18, 2011
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  9. reflex99

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    Sorry, I work mostly with desktop parts, so over here a 6990 is 2X6970 GPUs :p

    I hear that that notebook with the dual 485s and the i7 overheats a lot so the cards downclock a bunch and it doesnt perform aswell as it should
     
    reflex99, Jun 18, 2011
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    Depends on the machine, but where did you hear that?
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jun 18, 2011
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  11. reflex99

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    I seem to remember reading it in a review somewhere. It was like a 980X+dual 485M, which obviously isnt going to work out very well on a laptop....
     
    reflex99, Jun 18, 2011
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  12. Kevin

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    The issue then, I believe, was that the PSU was not strong enough to power that combination of CPU and dual graphics.

    Clevo fixed that by including the option for a secondary converter.
     
    Kevin, Jun 18, 2011
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    Which apparently only theoretically could exceed the power requirements of a single adapter, but they had to offer it because it was theoretically possible.
     
    HTWingNut, Jun 18, 2011
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  14. Meaker@Sager

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    For safeties sake they should have a bit larger PSU than needed.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Jun 18, 2011
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  15. FallenDawn

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    Hi Cloudfire
    Are you Chinese？
     
    FallenDawn, Jul 26, 2011
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    wait
    this 6990m gpuz picture is fake
    the 6990m clock is 715mhz
     
    FallenDawn, Jul 26, 2011
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    Did you see this?

     
    Blazin23, Jul 26, 2011
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