Tuesday, April 9th 2013
Radeon HD 7990 CrossFireX Smiles for the Camera
An anonymous tipster left an interesting picture on our doorsteps. It shows a pair of Radeon HD 7990 "Malta" reference-design graphics cards chugging along inside an enthusiast PC. AMD surprised us late last month, when it showed off a reference-design Radeon HD 7990 dual-GPU graphics card, at the Game Developers' Conference (GDC) event. The cards in this new picture appear to be identical to the one AMD showed. The "Radeon" embossing appears pretty clear on both cards, so one can't mistake them for FirePro S10000.
Bearing a new internal codename "Malta," compared to last year's various dual-HD 7970 contraptions that were codenamed "New Zealand," the new Radeon HD 7990 is being designed to be far more energy efficient, and quiet. While the various "New Zealand" cards often featured three 8-pin PCIe power connectors and triple-slot cooling solutions, "Malta" makes do with just two 8-pin power connectors, and a dual-slot cooler. We've been talking to a lot of reliable sources in the industry, and nobody has any clue about a tentative launch date.
Bearing a new internal codename "Malta," compared to last year's various dual-HD 7970 contraptions that were codenamed "New Zealand," the new Radeon HD 7990 is being designed to be far more energy efficient, and quiet. While the various "New Zealand" cards often featured three 8-pin PCIe power connectors and triple-slot cooling solutions, "Malta" makes do with just two 8-pin power connectors, and a dual-slot cooler. We've been talking to a lot of reliable sources in the industry, and nobody has any clue about a tentative launch date.
75 Comments on Radeon HD 7990 CrossFireX Smiles for the Camera
7890???
7980???
at $500 it could have destroyed its competition
Still they are cute little runts. ;)
That way, reviews of this card will show the performance of the new drivers, instead of the performance under current batch of(according to many) sub-par crossfire drivers which will cause this card to underperform.
It was an EA/DICE employee. He showed off the picture on /r/battlefield, a quick look through his history indicated that he was an EA/DICE employee.
Imo plx could make a big change.
Dual GPU cards like the 7990 and 690 is basically SLI and Crossfire on a stick. There is a chip on them to make the GPUs run in sync like a bridge would do for 2 separate cards.
... not to mention this issue was blown way out of proportion in the first place IMO. ;)
If the card actually works well, I'd get one.
cant let it go, err would like to see it. Being more serious, I would like to see how CFx on a stick handles it compared to two boards...its just, we cant afford the testing equipment... its going to be fixed soon by AMD (not that everyone sees it anyway) and after that we will all be left with $2k worth of testing equipment that nobody cares about.Hopefully we are right on that anyway... hah! :)
Same people harping on those results were to blind to see that SLI when working properly isnt worth the price your paying. Once you go from SLI at 1080p to 1440p the value of the second card drops like a brick and your variance spikes. Which is the whole issues your trying to avoid.
They just got too excited to diminish the competition they didnt care if they were getting screwed aswell.