14 DAY TRIAL // High-end cards are already expensive enough that only gamers and enthusiasts afford them, so ASUS figured it wouldn't hurt to make such a card that is especially meant to be pushed over the top.
New graphics cards seem to be coming out quite often nowadays, as both AMD and NVIDIA have resumed their close competitiveness.
While NVIDIA did have the misfortune of only delivering its first DirectX 11 cards about six months after AMD's first ones debuted, things seem to have stabilized.
Granted, the GeForce GT 400 line didn't prove overly formidable until the GTX 460 came out, but all problems were solved by the 500 series, so to speak.
The GTX 560 Ti is, one might say, the most popular of them, as it is a powerful mainstream card that actually drove AMD's partners to come up with new cards of their own, like 1 GB versions of the 6900 series.
Club 3D just showed off a HD 6950, for instance, and Tech In Style now reports that ASUS has also finalized its newest 6900 model.
The board is known as Radeon HD 6970 CirectCU and has overclocking capabilities that few of its peers can match, or so it is implied.
It is 12 inches long and has a pair of 8-pin power connectors, plus the Super Alloy Power technology, which increases the life of capacitors, chokes and MOSFETS).
Its GPU works at 890 MHz, while the 2 GB of VRAM has a clock speed of 5,500 MHz.
This would normally imply a higher temperature than the stock one, but the aforementioned DirectCu cooler actually drives it 20% lower (moves 600% more air with its two 100mm sound-dampened fans and has direct copper heatpipes).
Other specifications include a pair of DVI ports and four DisplayPort connectors. The only so-called drawback is that it takes up three PCI slots, so multi-GPU setups will be tricky, though they aren't particularly necessary either. No prices were given.