Tuesday, April 24th 2012
AMD Chooses Computex 2012 as Radeon HD 7990 Launchpad
Even as NVIDIA is on the verge of unveiling its GeForce GTX 690 dual-GPU graphics card, at GeForce LAN Shanghai, AMD is in no hurry. Its competitive graphics card to the GTX 690, the Radeon HD 7990 "New Zealand", will be kept under the wraps till Computex 2012 (early June), DonanimHaber learned. Radeon HD 7990 will pack two completely unlocked 28 nm "Tahiti" GPUs, a total of 4,096 Graphics CoreNext stream processors, 6 GB of GDDR5 memory, and the ability to drive 6-monitor Eyefinity, out of the box.
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20 Comments on AMD Chooses Computex 2012 as Radeon HD 7990 Launchpad
Believe nothing you read untill you read the benchmarks
The only way i see amd retaking the perf crown from gtx 690 is if 7990 core clocks are at the very least at 1100 Mhz.
Rumours were that it could have had 7950 shaders to keep TDP in check, anyway I'm a big fan of entirely unlocked chips at lower frequencies because you can overclock it back with additional cooling which is different from locked shaders which you usually can't unlock (with fex exceptions like 6950->6970).
Read this QUOTE in regards to CROSSFIRE & SLI via the 7970 & 680.
Either way it doesn't matter much to me as i never seems to have the money to buy a GC above $200...:ohwell:
Sorry off topic.