14 DAY TRIAL // It would appear that, with Advanced Micro Devices getting ready to unleash a new dual-GPU DirectX 11 adapter, a certain manufacturing partner has similar thoughts, although only a prototype was brought over to CeBIT 2011.
As end-users may or may not know by now, many IT companies from around the world are currently gathered together in Hannover, Germany.
This is because the CeBIT 2011 electronic trade show is in effect and will last until the fifth of March.
During this time, all sorts of hardware products for the consumer market will be demonstrated and promoted.
One thing that turned a fair number of heads was a certain dual-GPU graphics adapter that Advanced Micro Devices has been meaning to deliver for a while.
Dubbed Radeon DH 6990, it will take the place of the HD 5970 and become the most powerful video card on the market, if NVIDIA doesn't bring our something stronger of course.
While the market waits for the ultimate showdown to commence, Micro-Star International is working on its own iteration of the Antilles, or so says Engadget.
No doubt it will have 3,027 Stream Processors, 4 GB of GDDR5 VRAM and a 2 x 256-bit memory interface, like AMD's own.
Unfortunately, there was barely any info available at the show, and the one prototype on display is inside a case and not available for closer inspection.
Either way, the board itself is downright huge, and since it seems to have remained faithful to the reference design, this only means that all such beasts will be as immense.
Needless to say, all the Sunnyvale, California-based company's video technologies should be supported, this including CrossFireX and Eyefinity, among other things.
What remains is to see how many other AMD partners end up building a board of this sort. Either way, there is no doubt that the price of them all will be as large as the adapters are powerful.