Eurocom shipping laptops with AMD Radeon HD 6990M

Posted on Tuesday, July 12 2011 @ 23:26 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Eurocom announced the availability of notebooks with AMD's brand new Radeon HD 6990M GPU:
Eurocom Corporation (www.eurocom.com), a developer of long lifespan, fully upgradable notebooks is adding AMD’s newest AMD Radeon HD 6990M GPU to their extensive options list of high performance notebook computers. Eurocom will offer both HD 6970M and HD 6990M in its products. The addition of the AMD Radeon HD 6990M offers users a new level of high performance GPU computing in single and CrossFireX (dual) configurations. Eurocom will also offer the AMD Radeon HD 6990M GPUs separately to existing customers as an upgrade option.

“Together with support from Eurocom, AMD is able to provide notebook users with the world’s fastest single mobile graphics processor – AMD Radeon™ HD 6990M,” said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager of the graphics division, AMD. “AMD’s graphics offer massive computing power for mobile users and hardcore gamers can experience even more gaming performance through AMD CrossFireX™ technology.”

The addition of the AMD Radeon HD 6990M, the highest performing mobile solution from AMD, gives Eurocom customers a more complete choice of video processor options to configure into their new Eurocom system or upgrade into their existing system. The addition of the AMD Radeon 6990M GPUs in single and CrossFireX offers users another choice of video processor options to fit any preference or performance level.

“Eurocom has been working together with AMD team for many years now in both embedded and non-embedded projects. In the past we integrated AMD processors and ATi graphics solutions into a number of our systems. The AMD Radeon HD 6990M will enhance the capability of our products and offer customers a wider selection of GPU solutions” said Mark Bialic, President of Eurocom.

About AMD Radeon HD 6990M
The new AMD Radeon HD 6990M GPU is the most powerful single mobile GPU from AMD. Harness the incredible power of two GPUs with AMD CrossFireX technology, with 2GB of GDDR5 memory, 1.6 teraflops of compute power and 1120 stream processors times 2! For maximum performance Eurocom supports two AMD Radeon HD 6990M GPUs in CrossFireX in specific systems.

Featuring great tessellation performance, advanced DirectCompute support, Shader Model 5, texture compression and OpenCL support for true to life game play.

AMD Radeon HD 6990M are supported by the award winning AMD Catalyst driver updates that enable new features and performance improvements every month.

AMD Radeon HD 6990M Specs:
Process: 40nm
Stream Processor Units: 1120
Compute Power: 1.6 TFLOPS
Transistor Count: 1.7 Billion
Engine Clock Speed: 715 MHz
Bus Width: 256 bit
Resolution: 2560x1600
Memory Clock Speed: 900 MHz
Memory Size: 2 GB GDDR5
Memory Bandwidth (max): 115.2 GB/s

AMD HD 6990M Supports the following technologies:
OpenCL 1.1 Support
AMD CrossFireX Support
Microsoft DirectX 11 Support
Stereo 3D Gaming Support
Blu-ray 3D Support
Display Port 12
HDMI 1.4a
UVD 3

Eurocom Notebooks
Eurocom notebooks are high performance mobile computing solutions that are designed to offer the customer complete freedom in terms of upgradeability and configurability.

Eurocom notebooks including the Panther Series, Neptune, Racer and Fox provide gaming, multimedia and professional capabilities with support for the best available processors (Intel Xeon, Intel Core i7, i5, i3 mobile and desktop), Graphics Cards, Storage Drives (SSD, HDD, Hybrid) in RAID 0/1/5/10 and support for up to 32GB of DDR3-1333/1600 RAM.

Eurocom Models Supporting AMD Radeon HD 6990M
The AMD Radeon HD 6990M will be supported in the EUROCOM Panther 3.0 in CrossFireX with Xeon Processors, up to four storage drives and 24GB of RAM. As well as the EUROCOM Racer in single GPU configuration with up to 32GB of RAM and a full line of Sandy Bridge Processors. In addition to the EUROCOM Neptune in single GPU configuration with a beautiful 17.3” HD display, a full line of Sandy bridge processors and three solid state storage drives.

EUROCOM Panther 3.0
EUROCOM Neptune
EUROCOM Racer


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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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