 AMD is finally releasing their Dual-GPU AMD Radeon 6990 "Antilles" card. As I had surmized, this card fills the shoes of both the Dual-GPU and the Eyefinity 6 (well, Eyefinity 5) markets. Previously the Dual-GPU market was serviced by the ATI Radeon HD 5970 (which only had one 1GB of VRAM per GPU) and the Eyefinity5 market was serviced by the ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity6 Edition (which had 2GB of VRAM, but only one GPU).
In my mind, this merging of niche markets (niche within a niche, actually) makes sense. Not all Dual-GPU owners will utilize more than three screens in their Eyefinity setup. However, it is these "Ultra-Enthusiast" users (as AMD segmented them in their HD 5800 series literature) that are most likely to be the early adopters and embrace modes beyond "traditional" Eyefinity.
 Over time we find the need to update and renew benchmarks. In my initial review of the AMD Radeon HD 6800 and 6900 Series, we only had time to test the games that were already in our test stable from the Radeon HD 5000 series reviews and benchmarking. Unfortunately, many of these games were older, and ended up being CPU board and/or not fully showcasing the DX11 improvements in the Radeon HD 6900 series.
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