AMD has officially unleashed today a new beast in the world of graphics cards: the Radeon HD 7990. This dual-GPU videocard is codenamed Malta and is powered by two Tahiti XT GPUs (Radeon HD 7970). The Radeon HD 7990 targets NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX Titan in performance segment and especially in the price segment: you’ll have to spend around USD $1000 to be the owner of that triple fan card!
AMD Radeon HD 7990 main specifications
- GPU: Malta (two Tahiti XT) @ 950MHz, TSMC 28nm
- Stream processors: 4096 (2×2048)
- Compute units: 64 (2×32 – 64 shader processors per CU)
- Texture units: 256 (2×128)
- Color ROP units: 64 (2×32)
- Z/Stencil ROP units: 256 (2×128)
- Memory: 6GBMB GDDR5 (2x3GB) @ 6GHz effective speed, 2×384-bit
- TDP: 375W (idle power < 3W)
- Power connectors: two 8-pin
- 3D APIs: OpenGL 4.3, Direct3D 11.1
- GPU Computing: OpenCL 1.2, DirectCompute 11, Microsoft C++ AMP
Some marketing slides:
Reviews
Without doubts a great card, but the price is only for those who want the best only and can throw the money at it 😀
TDP: 375W (idle power < 3W)
Dear lord the lights will dim when you get it going.
Sadly, the powerful hardware is spoiled by mediocre drivers. Frame-rate stuttering all over the place.
Great for OCL computing, though.
Definitely a better compute monster than Titan for the same price but besides that rather *meah* a bit late AMD