AMD Radeon HD 6900 series for enthusiastic DX11 and OpenGL gamers

A lot of reviews out today on the new AMD Radeon HD 6900 series.  The official press release spells out the technical features including a new VLIW4 shader architecture, asynchronous dispatch (important for OpenCL and DirectCompute), dual tessellation units, up to 2GB memory, PowerTune thermal limits, and of course, Eyefinity .  For gaming enthusiasts, these cards offer great performance but where they really dominate over the competition is the price/performance ratio.

From PC Perspective:
“The Radeon HD 6970 2GB card offers the largest frame buffer for a single GPU solution (512MB more than the GTX 580) and with the architectural improvements brought about with the VLIW4 design, updated tessellation engines and AA enhancements, it is able to keep pace and beat the GTX 570 from NVIDIA in many places and nearly match the much more expensive GTX 580.  That puts the HD 6970 in a very competitive situation in terms of performance per dollar.”

Check out other reviews at:

- HardOCP.com
- HotHardware.com
- Anandtech.com
- ZDnet