AMD 7990 availability

[Macro]

Beyond the rumours earlier in the year has anyone heard anything about availability of the rumoured dual GPU 7990?

Having moved up to 2560x1440 I need to replace my venerable 5970 after a couple of years of excellent service. It still runs just fine but the relatively low 1Gb (per GPU) of VRAM is killing me at the higher resolution now.

A 7970 solves the VRAM problem but performance wise isn't much of a step ahead for the money. A 6990 is a step in the right direction but too expensive now for a technology that's about to be superseded. Dual 7950s could be the way forward although then there's considerations around air flow having two cards close together etc.

With a Kepler 680GTX type option sound like it's a long way off the 7990 could be the perfect answer, except it seems to have gone very quite on that front.

So, as I say, anyone heard anything recently?

 

[Macro]

March seems to be all I can turn up although most of those rumours seem to have been from back around the 7*** launch. I've not heard anything since and wonder if with the possible delays to a high end Kepler part AMD are keeping the dual GPU card under cover for the time being leaving the 7970 more time as fastest single card.

 

[Macro]

I went from HD 6990 to HD 7970, much happier with the 7970, just as fast as the 6990 when overclocked but doesn't sound like some kind of wood chipper during gaming!

HD 7970's are very nice cards and would be a big step up imho from a HD 5970, 7970's can be found for under £400 at some places

The HD 7990 will no doubt be a monster card though, i'll be tempted to upgrade to that depending on how close the performance is to two HD 7970's in xfire, and if AMD can solve the noise problem of their dual cards...

I guessing based on past experience (and nothing else to be honest) the 7990 is likely to be comparable to 2 x 7950s in performance rather than 2x7970s