The 6990 has been delayed to January 2011,If I find out more on this monster aka Antillies I will post that here
All I did get from my ATi Informers is that the HD 6990 will be a Dual HD 6950 and not 6970, due to TDP rules, how ever this may create roo for a HD 6995, although this might be a limited run of 1000 pieces only by 3rd party vendors like ASUS< XFX or Sapphire, maybe MSI as well, but I have my doubts, ATI devision of AMD dropped the HD 6995 anyways, but I will leave this as an option in the open for the other teams.
HD 6970 will be a good improvement over HD 5870, here another benchmark I got from my reliable source from Gathering of Tweakers.net:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/6498/comparep.jpg]
Dunno if this is real, got it from the same source:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/3373/benchq.jpg]
Source of the second link is from hardwarelux forum, but I found it on Tweakers.net like the previous pics and info's:
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1437904/8
Here some pics of the Evaluation Board, one of the final test cards from the best last Engineering Sample batch for final test results, you could compare this type of prototype with a Voodoo5 6000 Rev.A 3700 + PCI Rework, as type of card would go,these are also called Dev and Final Pre-Production samples:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/008.jpg]
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/007.jpg]
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/006-1.jpg]
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/005-1.jpg]
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/004-1.jpg]
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/003-1.jpg]
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/002-1.jpg]
[Blockierte Grafik: http://i917.photobucket.com/albums/ad18/p2mmao/001-2.jpg]
Ah well here a shot of a retail model from HIS, the HIS Radeon HD 6950
[Blockierte Grafik: http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/7383/69501.jpg]
and here the belgian prices of the Caymans:
HD 6970:
http://www.power4pc.be/webshop/grafis…02di2s2gd5.html
HD 6950:
http://www.power4pc.be/webshop/grafis…02di2s2gd5.html