ATi released the HD6990

Today ATi released the HD 6990...It's simply the fastes Graphic Card in the world...

This moster has two complete Cayman-GPUs, also can be found in the
HD 6970's...
With this two GPUs the HD 6990 is rendering up to 50% faster than the
GTX 580...nVidias leading card.

But the brute performance and a second BIOS for overclocking is just one part of the about 630€ expensive flagship...

Even if it is the farstes Graphic Card in the world and hardly to take below the 30 frames/second barrier it's request of power is immense. Also the two Cayman's want to be cooled...Just one fan, rotating on high speed, is cooling them. So the Card is very loud - simular to the nVidia GTX 480. The HD 6990 reaches about 66 dB up to 73 dB with the OC BIOS. Normal High End Graphic Cards are hardly to differenciate from the other hardware parts. But the ATi monster lightly can be identified.
After two HD 6970's have more performance and are cheaper...So why do we should buy the HD 6990?

Also in two weeks nVidia will bring its GTX 590 and then we will see how fast the ATi realy is...

What do you think, will the nVidia be faster than the ATi?

Post your thinking below...;)