GDC: AMD Radeon HD 7990 woow

[Tha Last Meal]

Time canceled then left in the hands of a few partners, the Radeon HD 7990 has been a long and complicated pregnancy. AMD has yet to confirm a reference design was currently being finalized.No information about the final specifications, except that the card is equipped with two 8-pin PCI Express connectors, but we can see it is a design similar to the one shown in the AFDS 2012 , which is slightly different from the design of the FirePro S10000 .
To support the future release of the Radeon HD 7990 "official" AMD is preparing a new tech demo that will once again stage Ruby. This demo is developed in partnership with Crytek, it rests on the CryEngine 3, and Illfonic (Nexuiz) and aims to get closer to a film made ​​with a use of many particle effects, the tessellation and a Depth of Field effect evolved. This demo is still under development and we could not observe a brief excerpt on a small screen, so difficult to get a clear idea of the quality of the final rendering. Note that the technology TressFX dedicated to rendering hair is not even in the game, but it is indeed being integrated.

http://www.arabpcworld.com/?p=28743
http://www.hardware.fr/news/13012/gd...-approche.html

[Final8ty]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/20321...n-hd-7990.html

[Evantaur]

Nnnnnnice... 2x8 pin

[FlanK3r]

wow, very nice

[Tha Last Meal]

some say the price will be 999$

[FlanK3r]

yes, its not cheap but its top product. I think, this cores will be very good for OC

[vitchilo]

Well this is an improvement over the other designs which asked for 3x8 pin power connectors. Who will be the first manufacturer to go crazy and do a tri-GPU gpu?? A 7970X3 for example? That would quite crazy.

[Ivanlabrie]

There's another pic with some strange Sky 700 500 or something cards...what about those?
6gb and 4gb vram variants (dual, 3gb and 2gb per core?). Smells like 7870 LE dual gpu (sky 500). now THAT would rock!

[Chrono Detector]

Pretty sure this cost $1000 if not more, I don't see AMD would price it lower if its going to be faster than the GTX 690 or Titan and price it lower.

Though AMD is late at releasing this, but better late than never. Any specs? I hope it has more bandwidth and possibly higher clock speeds than the 7970GE.

[Rollo]

Between CFx failing to scale on six games in TechPowerup's Titan Sli review, AMD's admission they have stuttering issues for CFx that won't start to be addressed till July, competition from the very well executed 690 and Titan, and the 7970 being a year and a half old at launch (so people who wanted CFx have it), and the $1000 price being almost $300 over two 7970s, this won't likely be a big seller.

AMD needs to get their next gen GPU out the door, not this.

[paulbagz]

Be interesting to see how reference models stack up against the ARES.

-PB

[SubZero.it]

Great! I like they said "it's whisper quiet"

[Tha Last Meal]

AMD needs to get their next gen GPU out the door, not this.

+1

yes, its not cheap but its top product. I think, this cores will be very good for OC

GTX 690 2GPU $1000
GTX TITAN 1GPU $1000
HD 7990 2GPU $1000

I wonder who will defeat the other

[SKYMTL]

Forgive me for sounding like a douche.

PowerColor has a HD 7990 which has been on the market for the better part of 9 months now. It's actually a great product that retails for $899 and can run at GHz Edition speeds with the simple press of a button.

AMD ALREADY showed New Zealand about a year ago. It has now morphed into Malta, basically the same card with a different PLX bridge.

I'm wondering what makes this card so special? Other than the fact that AMD has finally realized they couldn't count on board partners to compete directly against the GTX 690.....

Maybe AMD has something up their sleeves? I certainly hope so!

[Dimitriman]

Forgive me for sounding like a douche.

PowerColor has a HD 7990 which has been on the market for the better part of 9 months now. It's actually a great product that retails for $899 and can run at GHz Edition speeds with the simple press of a button.

AMD ALREADY showed New Zealand about a year ago. It has now morphed into Malta, basically the same card with a different PLX bridge.

I'm wondering what makes this card so special? Other than the fact that AMD has finally realized they couldn't count on board partners to compete directly against the GTX 690.....

Maybe AMD has something up their sleeves? I certainly hope so!

By the looks of it, seems like much lower power consumption?
Perhaps this is the same revision as in the 7790.

In any case this card needs to beat the 690 and the Titan by a significant margin in order to make sense. As you said yourself, there have been 7970 X2 on the market for a long time now.

[SubZero.it]

Forgive me for sounding like a douche.

PowerColor has a HD 7990 which has been on the market for the better part of 9 months now. It's actually a great product that retails for $899 and can run at GHz Edition speeds with the simple press of a button.

We know but...that was HUGE, awful for my taste and had 3x8pin connectors.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

Forgive me for sounding like a douche.

PowerColor has a HD 7990 which has been on the market for the better part of 9 months now. It's actually a great product that retails for $899 and can run at GHz Edition speeds with the simple press of a button.

AMD ALREADY showed New Zealand about a year ago. It has now morphed into Malta, basically the same card with a different PLX bridge.

I'm wondering what makes this card so special? Other than the fact that AMD has finally realized they couldn't count on board partners to compete directly against the GTX 690.....

Maybe AMD has something up their sleeves? I certainly hope so!

We know but...that was HUGE, awful for my taste and had 3x8pin connectors.

This is what I was wondering. The powercolor has been OOS on newegg for quite some time. I thought this was a pretty neat card, but from the reviews, gtx 690 still seems to be the performance king.

As for it being huge, and maybe it's just my luck, but my gtx 690 runs really hot. I can't even play SC2 w/o custom fan profiles @ 1600p w/ settings maxed. The triple slot design should provide better cooling, no? Unless the TDP is significantly lower, I can't see a dual slot card being quiet in any way. I guess we'll have to see, but there'll be water blocks for this, no doubt.

[zalbard]

The same thing was shown a year ago...

[DilTech]

My only question is, will it be able to lower the frame latency currently plaguing cross-fire solutions?

[naokaji]

My only question is, will it be able to lower the frame latency currently plaguing cross-fire solutions?

Nope, however they have offered a roadmap of when they supposedly will get around to improving the drivers in regards to that...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6857/a...-roadmap-fraps

[Rollo]

Nope, however they have offered a roadmap of when they supposedly will get around to improving the drivers in regards to that...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6857/a...-roadmap-fraps

CFx needs some work beyond the stuttering too.

However, I think with anti-stutter drivers and a price of $800 this thing is a good deal. I don't think it will stay $1000 long, so everyone wins. (except Asus, ARES days are over when this launches)

Personally I don't get why everyone isn't using those Arctic 3 fan heat sinks.

[BababooeyHTJ]

Pretty sure this cost $1000 if not more, I don't see AMD would price it lower if its going to be faster than the GTX 690 or Titan and price it lower.

Though AMD is late at releasing this, but better late than never. Any specs? I hope it has more bandwidth and possibly higher clock speeds than the 7970GE.

They're going to have to. Honestly, why would you buy this over a card with hardware frame metering that'll deliver a much smoother experience? Just for benchmarks?

[Darakian]

Odds are this will use scaled up GCN 1.1 style cores. The 7790 does a fair bit better in frame latency than the older 7000 series from what I've read and so to should this.

[G.Foyle]

The same thing was shown a year ago...

Official reference HD 7990 is NOT the same board as FirePro S10000. It's the same two GPUs but a different board.

[ajaidev]

I have used a 690 for qui8te some time now and all i can say is that Titan is an improvement over the 690 in lot of fields other than pure performance. Here 690, Powercolor 7990 and Titan cost about the same and the 7990 is the most primitive and old school card among the bunch. This new reference competes much better with the old 690 if performance is around Powercolor 7990 but fails to really put much of a fight against a single chip Titan solution.

I am awaiting the slower Nvidia Titan to be a reality soon it would be a very awsom card if priced rite...