Wednesday, April 17th 2013
AMD Radeon HD 7990 Launch Date Revealed
Market launch of AMD's Radeon HD 7990 "Malta" dual-GPU graphics card is less than a week away, according to an OCaholic report. Sources told the publication that AMD plans to launch its flagship graphics card on the 24th of April, 2013. According to it, reviews of the card should already be underway. AMD Radeon HD 7990 is the company's flagship graphics card, featuring a pair of 28 nm "Tahiti" GPUs. According to specifications derived from older reports, it packs a total of 4096 stream processors, and 6 GB of GDDR5 memory across two 384-bit wide memory interfaces. What sets this card apart from the HD 7990 "New Zealand" launched last year by AMD's partners is the power-optimizations AMD put into it, leaving the card to draw power from "just" two 8-pin PCIe power connectors, and make do with a dual-slot cooling solution.
Source:
OCaholic.ch
96 Comments on AMD Radeon HD 7990 Launch Date Revealed
If there's a driver that fixes things, I'll be buying one of these in the coming months for definite.
It's not like you dont have enough cards
As for your deleted comment saying that I forgot to check that you use a 7970, nobody's accusing you of having an anti-AMD agenda.
I really believe some of these stemmed from cadaveca's initial propoganda post on it. His wording was WAY to strong for what the problem was. ANd since people respect his opinion (and rightfully so) the lemmings here took off and ran with it and now its spreading like wild fire. Personally, I find guru3d's take on it a lot more accurate.
but I digress. As much as I hate hearing it, Im more than certain those that are experiencing problems are tired of hearing this side! :)
I think he was right to make a big deal of it though, because while, yes, AMD graphics cards are still compelling solutions, it is a big deal. This is in a context where people will normally cream themselves over a 5% difference in FPS, so an issue like this is a big deal, and it will put people off AMD cards, and they will say so.
Of course, as you say, blanket generalisations are inane and unhelpful, but there are trolls in every big news thread. That's just a fact of life on forums like this one, and it is by no means limited to threads about AMD graphics cards. Keep a tighter hold on your jimmies.
I mean seriously, you agree with this: Blanket statements FTL. :(
I'm not suggesting, nor did I allude to that point that he is unfair towards AMD. All I am saying is that his statement was unnecessarily strong and misleading IMO (as in its NOT useless, AMD WASNT cheating - though he nor I can prove otherwise. AMD said they didnt test for it like that. Now that they can/do, they are fixing it. And last, the Second card for crossfire does NOTHING). NONE of that is true! Plenty are just fine with using CFx, and scaling is solid, IMO outside of a few titles (which both parties have issues with scaling in some titles).
I have a TON of respect for Dave and the knowledge he brings to the table, him and I have discussed this already in another thread too. I just feel the tone and words used were not helpful in bringing the reality of the situation to the people here.