Monday, May 28th 2012
PowerColor Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil13 Graphics Card Detailed
Last week, we were teased with the first picture of PowerColor's Vortex III cooling solution. A little later that week, we also got reports that AMD's add-in board (AIB) partners are working on off-spec dual-GPU graphics accelerators, calling them "Radeon HD 7970 X2", even as AMD's own HD 7990 is on course. It turns out that the card the Vortex III is designed to cool is PowerColor's newest high-end creation, the Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil13.
Decked in red and black, the card is a custom-design dual-GPU graphics card from PowerColor, which incorporates two 28 nm Tahiti GPUs in CrossFire configuration. The GPUs have all their components enabled, and clocked on par with single-GPU Radeon HD 7970. The two GPU systems cumulatively hold 6 GB of GDDR5 memory (3 GB per GPU, over 384-bit wide interface). The card draws power from three 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors, and has a rated TDP of 525W. The card will be exhibited at Computex, where it will be further detailed.
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DonanimHaber
Decked in red and black, the card is a custom-design dual-GPU graphics card from PowerColor, which incorporates two 28 nm Tahiti GPUs in CrossFire configuration. The GPUs have all their components enabled, and clocked on par with single-GPU Radeon HD 7970. The two GPU systems cumulatively hold 6 GB of GDDR5 memory (3 GB per GPU, over 384-bit wide interface). The card draws power from three 8-pin PCI-Express power connectors, and has a rated TDP of 525W. The card will be exhibited at Computex, where it will be further detailed.
51 Comments on PowerColor Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil13 Graphics Card Detailed
If your an enthusiast going for records what do you care about the power usage anyway?
Or Prima.Vera I guess this card would be for people who still aren't on CRT monitors at resolutions of 1024x768. Time to upgrade man?
Plus if you bought this card for Diablo 3, WOW, and Starcraft 2 you deserve to loose all your money. Hey I'll make it easier for you. Just give it to me and I will put this card to work.
Plus I would like to add.... If you are using your card just to play diablo 3 ..... both card companies should have stopped making cards after the HD 5770 and GTS 450. There is no reason to have anything more powerful.
HD 7970 - 925MHz, X2 Devil13 - 1GHz
GTX 680 - 1008MHz, GTX 690 - 915MHz.
Hopefully, ASUS MARS III is on the way. Would be interesting to see such Titans battle.
I would like to add though.... That this card seems like it will be ridiculously heavy!That's what my point is. Yes this card is power hungry! Yes this card will need 3 power connections! But the group of people that this card is aimed at ..... are not the ones that usually care about power efficiency.
They are more concerned with just having the most powerful card out there.
I too hope that the Asus Mars III is on the way also. That card will be a beast if is going to be made.
The GTX690 has stellar performance but it fails on VRAM so my hope is on the dual Tahitis.
ooooooh, what does this button do?
AMD Releases a card just like that, and everyone is like yea, awesome, this card is a beast! And then the excuses about power consumption kick in, "well this card is aimed at enthusiasts, blah blah blah".
The fan bias towards AMD on this site is staggering. I root for all three companies myself, Intel included, because we need competition to have innovation. I mean seriously, 525W? And somehow u guys are OK with that? SMH
If you want you can give a 7750 20 8pins, still wouldn't use 3075W...
The card is not designed by AMD, but PowerColor :laugh:
This is a custom design like the original Asus Mars and Ares etc, no one in their right mind complains about a card that is never designed with power efficiency in mind.
edit: wotevajjjj was quicker.
My specs:
3930k
32Gb Corsair Dominator GT 2133
240 Gb x 2 Intel 520's Raid 0
Corsair AX1200
Caviar Black 1tb
Would I be good on power?
Though I'm pretty sure some crazy overclockers running specific software could probably hit the 525W if they try hard enough.