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AMD 7990 availability

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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 A 6990 is a step in the right direction but too expensive now for a technology that's about to be superseded.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?
 
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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.
 
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...
 
Boomstick777 said:
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...
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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
 
Athanor said:
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
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Somewhere between the two I should think, but yeah, I can't see it being any faster than two 7970's in crossfire.
 
Im in the same yacht (didnt want to say boat it sounds common) as the OP with the same card and resolution as him. Im thinking of getting a new card in april. My choices as i see it:
1) Buy the 7990 if its out by april and not over £600.
2) Buy a 7970 and start saving up for another one.

The answer ill get from you guys will most probably be the second one. Do you guys really believe 2x7970 will be faster than the 7990?
 
Two 6970s faster than a 6990.
Two full fat 280s faster than a 295.
Two full fat 5870s faster than a 5970.
590 slower than two 580s.

And so on. Just use history as your guide.
 
ALXAndy said:
Two 6970s faster than a 6990.
Two full fat 280s faster than a 295.
Two full fat 5870s faster than a 5970.
590 slower than two 580s.

And so on. Just use history as your guide.
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Very good point, and your right about the 5870CF faster than the 5970, i could cry about that:p But then again i didnt like the idea of touching CF back then. But with the 7xxx series cards i think yeah why not:)
 
I think the appeal of the 7990 will be having two of the best 7970 chips at hand so they could overclock past the average 7970 and beat them on performance in that way.

The actual unit you are sold is lower in performance but higher in potential?
 
Dual GPU cards are hardly champion overclockers are they?

The very fact that they're usually heavily underclocked due to the constraints and heat says it all.

Try overclocking a 590 and see what you get lmao
 
gareth170 said:
well my 6990 can do 950mhz on stock voltage of 1.175v

could easyly get it to 1000mhz with a bump up on the voltage
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Im guessing your 6990 is under water? If I had clocked mine that high on the unlocked bios, the 'wood chipper' like noise from the stock cooler would have been unbearable :)

The HD 7970 is a very nice card tbh, performance around the same as HD 6990 when OC'd, and better in some games.. 7970 also has single card advantage, doesn't depend on X fire for performance.

Paid £400 for mine brand new, and sold my 6990 for just over £500 :p

Really don't need a 7990 but no doubt i'll be tempted when it lauches lol. All that power!!
 
bakes0310 said:
Im in the same yacht (didnt want to say boat it sounds common) as the OP with the same card and resolution as him. Im thinking of getting a new card in april. My choices as i see it:
1) Buy the 7990 if its out by april and not over £600.
2) Buy a 7970 and start saving up for another one.
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I'm allmost in the same yacht. I'm planning on getting 2560x1440 monitor, but for that I need more powerful graphics card. My options are:
1) Wait for the 7990.
2) Buy 7970 now and OC it to the max.

Getting two 7970's is not an option, because my mobo has only one pci-e x16 slot :(. Otherwise I would have allready bought two 7950's. At the moment I'm leaning on option 1, because one 7970 doesn't quite have the performance I'm looking for, not even when OC'ed.
 
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