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by Anthony-Garreffa (Dec, 2012)6GB-12GB of RAM is absolutely insane - a true monster for PCs, but just how many games take advantage of that now?
by Tim-Verry (Dec, 2012)The dual gpu 8990 card, as well as the rest of the 8000 series will support DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0, and OpenGL 4.2.
Benchmarks Real world tests of the Radeon HD 8990
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
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PassMark Direct Compute Measures performance of general-purpose computing using Microsoft DirectCompute
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| 6 Dec |
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6GB-12GB of RAM is absolutely insane - a true monster for PCs, but just how many games take advantage of that now?
Even with multiple monitors and insane amounts of anti-aliasing, I can't see any gamer getting close to 12GB of VRAM usage.
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The dual gpu 8990 card, as well as the rest of the 8000 series will support DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0, and OpenGL 4.2.
The dual GPU card will have a maximum TDP of 375W and will come with slightly lower GPU core and memory clockspeeds compared to two individual 8970 cards.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | AMD |
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| GPU name | Aruba |
| Market | Desktop |
| Clock speed | 1,050 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | Yes |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 5,120 |
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| Texture mapping units | 320 |
| Render output processors | 96 |
| Compute units | 80 |
| Pixel rate | 100.8 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 336 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 10,752 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 1,500 MHz |
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| Effective memory clock speed | 6,000 MHz |
| Memory bus | 768 bit |
| Memory | 6,144 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR5 |
| Memory bandwidth | 576 GB/s |
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