Wednesday, April 17th 2013
AMD Radeon HD 7990 Launch Date Revealed
Market launch of AMD's Radeon HD 7990 "Malta" dual-GPU graphics card is less than a week away, according to an OCaholic report. Sources told the publication that AMD plans to launch its flagship graphics card on the 24th of April, 2013. According to it, reviews of the card should already be underway. AMD Radeon HD 7990 is the company's flagship graphics card, featuring a pair of 28 nm "Tahiti" GPUs. According to specifications derived from older reports, it packs a total of 4096 stream processors, and 6 GB of GDDR5 memory across two 384-bit wide memory interfaces. What sets this card apart from the HD 7990 "New Zealand" launched last year by AMD's partners is the power-optimizations AMD put into it, leaving the card to draw power from "just" two 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and make do with a dual-slot cooling solution.
Source:
OCaholic.ch
96 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 7990 Launch Date Revealed
Regardless, release of this should hopefully bring pricing on the GTX690 down in line.
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I hope the price around $700 not around $1000, except AMD had talked to nVidia about the price :)
It will just come down to personel preference.
still wait about how much this card will eat the power, if keep low and stay behind 2 x 7970 maybe for $800 this best bunch for money.
Nice...but even my XFX black 7970 is more than plenty for my single 23" monitor....and will be...for a while. Maybe when I get home from Tokyo next year, I'll get a 32" screen...and another 7970...they should be nice and cheap by then ($300?)...this 7990 is...impressive, but excessive, at least for my needs.
On topic, I hope that April 24 launch date is true. :)
The driver is there and available but is only used for 1 product not line-up. So if you speak of contaminating test results its already apparent and the reason why W1zzard includes this in every review.
Yet, PcPer include Observed FPS. He needed to measure something that wasnt appearent to everyone.
Just look at his latest podcast on it and even his own team couldnt really tell real-time variances.
A better way to measure would be tolerable variance. It be a dynamic measure but would be more reflective of what a user would actually experince.
The only thing that has kept this whole thing "hidden" before is that the performance offered by a single card was too small for this issues to be truly noticed by as many users as it does now. As you know, everyone we talk to on TS and other places all says that they have the same stuff on Crossfire now, except maybe one or two users, and that before a couple of months ago, those numbers were exactly opposite. I really believe that most users don't understand this problem fully, since I still see some users on other forums saying that there is no problem, and V-sync fixes it, when, on my systems, clearly it doesn't.
I managed to customize a driver and lessen the stutter, and I've posted screenshots of the results here on TPU some time ago, so I know that a fix is possible, but from what I see, performance is going to suffer by about 30%. That would make AMD lose the performance crown, so I am a bit loathe to just blindly move over multiple NVidia cards, and potentially have other issue. At least I know and understand the problems now, and can deal with it. I took my pictures, and I'm ready to sell my cards. I will give AMD one single driver release after 7990 launch, then I will attempt to return my cards to the retailer, since they don't work as advertised. IF the retailer doesn't cooperate, I'll be seeing AMD in court, and AMD will be buying me new cards, and anyone else who bought multiple AMD VGAs. I have already spoken to a class-action lawyer who is very keen on pursuing this one, but we need a true monetary loss, and no ability to rectify the problem. AMD hasn't given a public statement about this, so I have made arrangements to get one of these FACT systems to use in court to prove the problem, which was actually easier that I thought it was. Who would have thought other companies would like to see the demise of AMD? :laugh:
I've had AMD call me at home over issues with product packaging like this before. It's not really as big of a deal as you make it out to be, and it forces AMD to handle the problem appropriately. AMD is taking this issue rather seriously, from my communications with them as an end user. I had boxes changed over UVD2 claims on the box, in the past.
Just look at these gems over at Nvidia forums...And thats just 1 page out of 38 in the latest drivers
Havent seen a class action suit filed yet.