GDC: AMD Radeon HD 7990 woow

[FlanK3r]

What about Crossfire


http://www.techpowerup.com/182574/Ra...he-Camera.html

[t800]

We probably see soon new WR.....of microstuttering

[FlanK3r]

but still is it more better than few years ago with first dual graphics etc

[Rollo]

but still is it more better than few years ago with first dual graphics etc

This thing was supposed to come out a few years ago....

Well a year ago anyway. This one may have the record for "Latest Card in History".

[LordEC911]

This thing was supposed to come out a few years ago....

Well a year ago anyway. This one may have the record for "Latest Card in History".

Nope... your beloved Nvidia still holds the record on that...

[SKYMTL]

Nope... your beloved Nvidia still holds the record on that...

He is partially true though. It was originally due in Q1 2012.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...7990-tomorrow/

[Rollo]

He is partially true though. It was originally due in Q1 2012.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...7990-tomorrow/

Partially true? I can't think of any announced card being a year plus late before. Just Goggled it, found rumors posted in December 2011 for this card:

http://www.techpowerup.com/157320/AM...GB-Memory.html

Then I saw an actual company slide that implies an April 2012 launch:

http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?im...VfMV8xX2wuanBn

It's Back To The Future year at AMD.

[Elmy]

I just wish this thing had 5 displayports on it for 5x1 @ 144Hz. :-/

[tajoh111]

Nope... your beloved Nvidia still holds the record on that...

The most delayed card in recent history from Nvidia is Fermi which was 5 months. November to march delay.

This card should have came out before the gtx 690, which came out early march.

I guess that magic fairy dust that you were talking about last year, takes a year to prepare.

You never know. AMD might have got their hands on a supply of magic pixie dust or maybe something else.

[LordEC911]

Partially true? I can't think of any announced card being a year plus late before. Just Goggled it, found rumors posted in December 2011 for this card:

http://www.techpowerup.com/157320/AM...GB-Memory.html

Then I saw an actual company slide that implies an April 2012 launch:

http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?im...VfMV8xX2wuanBn

It's Back To The Future year at AMD.

So we are doing the time between rumored release dates and actual release dates?
Like I said, Nvidia still has the record.

[mbreslin]

One time my friend was short gas money and AMD spot him a 20 so he could get to the movies. I could have the company wrong it might have been Nvidia. Either way these companies totally care about us and I can see why you guys defend them to the death. Please continue.

[Rollo]

The most delayed card in recent history from Nvidia is Fermi which was 5 months. November to march delay.

This card should have came out before the gtx 690, which came out early march.

I guess that magic fairy dust that you were talking about last year, takes a year to prepare.

The ill fated 5800 series was a good 7-8 months late IIRC, but I can't remember anything as late as this fairy dusted beast.

[Rollo]

One time my friend was short gas money and AMD spot him a 20 so he could get to the movies. I could have the company wrong it might have been Nvidia. Either way these companies totally care about us and I can see why you guys defend them to the death. Please continue.

QFT

NVIDIA, intel, and AMD's interest in us begins and ends at our wallet.

[Maxforces]

but still is it more better than few years ago with first dual graphics etc

Not really. I'd say worse.
I sell second card do you want to buy
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111048333793...84.m1555.l2649
CF sucks big way on 7xxx series

[Final8ty]

AMD will be launching their flagship Radeon HD 7990 dual-GPU graphics card on April 24, credible sources from within the industry told us. Some selected members of press have already got hands on samples of HD 7990 and they are testing the graphics cards for launch day reviews. However, it is not confirmed whether the 24th of April is the paper launch day or card will also be available for public on the same day. Some reports tell us that in Europe and America, the card will be available for purchase on same day but in other regions of the world, the card will hit retail channel on a later date.

The Radeon HD 7990 was first shown on GDC by AMD last month. And on a later date, picture of two HD 7990s running in Crossfire was leaked on the internet. From the details that are known as yet, the Radeon HD 7990 is based on a completely new chip codenamed ?Malta? and it has three 90mm fans for cooling along with two 8-pin PCIe connectors for power.

http://www.chiploco.com/amd-radeon-h...ch-date-23511/

I'm not sure about the source.

[Tim]

Really don't see the point of this card at all.

The ill fated 5800 series was a good 7-8 months late IIRC, but I can't remember anything as late as this fairy dusted beast.

If I remember correctly the FX cards were announced Nov 2002, launched Feb 2003? Might have got that wrong.

Just for giggles :

PowerVR PCX1 - Oct 95 / Oct 96
S3 Virge3D - Oct 95 / Nov 96
Yamaha YGV-612 - Nov 94 / Oct 96
PowerVR PVR250 - Feb 98 / Aug 99
Blade XP - Apr 00 / May 01

[Rollo]

Really don't see the point of this card at all.



If I remember correctly the FX cards were announced Nov 2002, launched Feb 2003? Might have got that wrong.

Oops. My bad, I thought it was scheduled around 9700Pro time and came out 7-8 months later and worse performing.

Your post made me miss the monstrosity, so I went over to Ebay to see if I could pick one up on the cheap and hear it's hair dryer whine again as that bizarre HSF kicked into gear.

In any case, this 7990 is a day....errrr....year late and some smooth framerate short. Probably not one of AMDs more timely launches. They should have kicked it out the door last year before all the latency benches, they would have sold at $1k then.

They could have posted all sorts of 10-15fps higher than 690 benches and people wouldn't have known they couldn't really see/use most of those reported fps due to runt frames.

[FlanK3r]

Its domination...because HD7970 was the top single card until Titan. Now is HD 7970 second. GTX 690 is the best overall in performance (FPS) if we will not talking about HD7970X2 (but this is not AMD directly). So AMD want be back with the most performance card again and thats reason of HD 7990.

[Lanek]

Its domination...because HD7970 was the top single card until Titan. Now is HD 7970 second. GTX 690 is the best overall in performance (FPS) if we will not talking about HD7970X2 (but this is not AMD directly). So AMD want be back with the most performance card again and thats reason of HD 7990.

Without speaking about "public " computing performance ... this thing sport nearly 8Tflops SP and 2Tflops DP ... do a 4x GPU's home computing system ( if you dont need full stability and ECC etc ) .. and you own a pretty good 32TFlops / 8Tflops DP system. Titan is mostly sold too for his computing performance, who was miss on Kepler GK104 cards.

They will be many annonces thoses next months on popular softwares to support now OpenCL acceleration and funny enough they are just faster of CUDA in thoses cases ( Adobe Premiere is the first one ( was allready supporting OpenCL acceleration on Mac ).. some will come then. ( many contract have been past thoses last months ) . ( Most professional softwares sport OpenCL with or without plugin since a good time now ( specially Opensource computing and 3D softwares, Movies anyway .)

The presentation made by by AMD on gaming side, and computing was pretty clear on their conferences, i dont know how it will end, but we cant think they will be conservative on developpement due to situation, their conferences was show an extreme aggressivity on thoses 2 markets. .. ( its good to see they put Gaming Evolved in the center of their operations, including consoles and mobiles )..
(
I dont know if Rory R. have change his politics for reduce cost, but annonces dont look to be in the line of what was shown before by him )

I have heard 22th April for the launch ( not the 24 ) ... but can be wrong. anyway, next week .

[Final8ty]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Radeon-H...torefresh=true

[Lanek]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Radeon-H...torefresh=true

Definitively like the cooling .. It is not as classy of the titan, but some peoples who have seen it run said it is extremely quiet. ( note the cooler is the exact same replica of the S10000 )

[Rollo]

Its domination...because HD7970 was the top single card until Titan. Now is HD 7970 second. GTX 690 is the best overall in performance (FPS) if we will not talking about HD7970X2 (but this is not AMD directly). So AMD want be back with the most performance card again and thats reason of HD 7990.

As AMD gives you parts, I realize in your world whatever they make is always the best.

For the rest of us, when 680 launched it was the fastest card.

Then GTX690 was the fastest card.

Then AMD released an OCd 7970 with some drivers that had issues, and two OEMs made dual 7970 cards that I guess were "fastest" if you include runt frames rendered too quickly to be seen.

The 7990 is in engineering terms, a "POS" compared to Titan- there is no "dominance" here. It's just a bolted together part like AMD 4X4 so they can say they win a few benchmarks.

I look at 7970s differently- I see them as the equivalent of a 680 but a much better deal due to price and bundling.

The 7990 is a sad joke due to CFx woes on the profile, runt frame, and latency front.

What AMD really needs to launch is the real 8 series- and for $700 or less. Only then will balance be restored to pc gaming.

[Rollo]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Radeon-H...torefresh=true

Won't the buyer be sad when they find out the user experience is the same as with a $350 7970.

[DilTech]

Its domination...because HD7970 was the top single card until Titan. Now is HD 7970 second. GTX 690 is the best overall in performance (FPS) if we will not talking about HD7970X2 (but this is not AMD directly). So AMD want be back with the most performance card again and thats reason of HD 7990.

The question is: Will it be top performance to fraps, or will it be top performance to the owner's eyes? If it has the same issues that CF currently have, the 690 has nothing to worry about; the titan is faster than CF'd 7970's in terms of observed frame-rate no matter what you do or how many monitors you throw at it, and the 690 is even faster than that. AMD will need to fix their drivers - which consequently will drop performance majorly - if they want any chance of over-throwing NVidia for the performance crown.

[STEvil]

Wow...