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*** The official HD 7990 review and discussion thread ***

I was going to get one but I'm not impressed by the pricing. Too much of a premium over 7970 CF
 
MaximusV said:
I just have to wonder what the price would have been if Titan weren't released.
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I think the price would have been the same. Remember it's not competing against the Titan but the 690. If the Titan didn't exist the 690 would still be there at the £900 price point.
 
Well I am very disappointed with the 7990. It was a card that I would have really considered buying if it had been around the £700 mark. At £860 it's performance isn't good enough over other cards.

The other thing I was hoping for was that the 7990 was going to bring some new features to the table, the only thing different is the new 48 lane bridge between the two GPU's. Where is GCN2.0?

On the plus side, an early version of the new driver has been released that seems to improve frame times a lot. Which hopefully means better things going foward. At least you know now that there will be a definite improvement over time with newer drivers.
 
Not impressed.

Pros:
# Good noise and heat levels
# CF Frame Latency is better

Cons:
# No faster than 7970 CF
# Still high power consumption
# way over priced

£150 premium just because its duel slot?

That is a leaf right out of Nvidia's book, not what we want to see from you AMD.
 
Is it actually worth spending that much money on dual gpus when we know that next gen high end single solutions would easily match more or less the current dual gpus performance for much less price. I mean the 7970GHz matches 6990, doesn't it?
 
WingZero30 said:
Is it actually worth spending that much money on dual gpus when we know that next gen high end single solutions would easily match more or less the current dual gpus performance for much less price. I mean the 7970GHz matches 6990, doesn't it?
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That was a major architecture change and a die shrink. We are getting none of these this time round.

Think 480 -> 580 level increases.
 
I don't see the point of getting a 7990 even at same price as 2x7970, the 7990 should seat between 2x7950 and 2x7970... something around £600.

2x 7970 uses 2 boards, more components, you need to take care of 2 boxes, 2x acessories, 2x handling and freight.... so all this should compensate the premium price of having 2 gpus in one card.

not to talk about the fact that when it come the time to sell your cards, you will get more money out of 2x7970 than 1x7990
 
Drangueos said:
I don't see the point of getting a 7990 even at same price as 2x7970, the 7990 should seat between 2x7950 and 2x7970... something around £600.

2x 7970 uses 2 boards, more components, you need to take care of 2 boxes, 2x acessories, 2x handling and freight.... so all this should compensate the premium price of having 2 gpus in one card.

not to talk about the fact that when it come the time to sell your cards, you will get more money out of 2x7970 than 1x7990
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I agree
 
The Toms Hardware review was very illuminating. I guess the old addage is true, you get what you pay for - especially when it comes to Xfire/SLI. All I can say to AMD is please hurry up with those prototype drivers, I might finally get Xfire to work in iracing :)
 
Kaapstad said:
I am surprised there has not been more comment on the poor driver support

This website has the right idea

A performance summary with all the games included (for the Nvidia fanboys)

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7990/25.html

And a second performance summary with all the games taken out where xfire does not work. (for the AMD fanboys)

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7990/26.html

My real point is why did AMD launch the card before they sorted the drivers.
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Your first link: with All games included (for the Nvidia fanboys)
At 2560 x 1600 the 7990 is faster than Titan and 4% behind the GTX 690.

The second link: with all the games taken out where xfire does not work. (for the AMD fanboys)
Its again Faster than Titan and 6% faster than the GTX 690.

There is not much difference, SLI and xFire don't work in all games, i don't see what you or they are driving at, frankly.
 
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