XFX, Gigabyte, HIS Also Roll Out Radeon HD 7990 Cards
Three more manufacturers have released their HD 7990 graphics cards. Unsurprisingly, it's more of the same.
Earlier we informed you that AMD released its HD 7990 part and was among the first five manufacturers to release their cards. Now, three more manufacturers have joined in the speed race, among which are Gigabyte, HIS and XFX.
They all feature two 28 nm Tahiti chips that are based on the GCN architecture, running at a base clock speed of 950 MHz with a boost speed of 1,000 MHz. In total, the cards each have 4096 stream processors, 256 Texture Mapping Units (TMUs), and 64 Render Output Units (ROPs). Each of the GPUs has 3 GB of GDDR5 memory dedicated to it, bringing the total memory on the 7990's PCBs to 6 GB. The memory runs at 6 GHz, which goes over a 384-bit memory interface.
All of the cards also come with the following eight games bundled:
- Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix)
- Hitman: Absolution (IO Interactive/Square Enix)
- Sleeping Dogs (Square Enix)
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Eidos/Square Enix)
- Crysis 3 (Crytek/EA)
- Far Cry 3 (Ubisoft)
- Far Cry: Blood Dragon (Ubisoft)
- BioShock Infinite (Irrational Games/2K)
Again, all of these cards are exact rollouts of the reference specifications. Hopefully, it won't be a long wait for custom cards to come out.


powercolor is more legit than them now....
Then I got a HD7970. Oops. Noisy fans (including some rattling), very hot-running, and WORST, unresponsive support. The latter in particular is why I got a RMA on it, and will be replacing it with a Gigabyte. While not on my "Do Not Buy" list (it takes outright incompetence, e.g. Diamond, or dishonesty, e.g. CM, to make that list), they will no longer be one of my preferred vendors until I've become aware that their support has improved.
I can't see spending $999+ for a flagship video card.
That's the point I made lifetime and double life time is gone all gone.
I can't see spending $999+ for a flagship video card.
Ironically, a lot of people can. Myself for example, spent $550 on a 7970, then $900+ on a 690... Thinking of dropping it for a pair of Titans. I'm not loaded or anything. But my computer is one thing I tend to spend money on. Some people spend it on cars or something. About the only thing I really spend big money on is computer parts. Wife, two kids still win the priority obviously but when it comes to buying toys, I stopped with the consoles of 10-year-old garbage hardware and focused on my PCs.
I know some of the most broke people in the world spending $5k+ on a set of rims for their car... To me that's insane. It's all about priorities and what is important to the person.
ALTHOUGH, I do agree that the current $1k price for these elite cards is really pushing it. $600 was steep enough IMHO...
once I did clean it up after getting annoyed with its rather high running temperatures I managed to make it loose about 10 degrees of heat
that gave me a massive overhead for overclocking boosting its performance to even higher levels
That's the point I made lifetime and double life time is gone all gone.
Still lifetime on my DD HD7950!
Not that I'll be buying one...getting a single HD7970 was enough pain in the wallet.