Radeon HD 7990 Price Cut to $799 After Catalyst 13.8 Release
AMD has taken its most powerful yet unpopular card and slashed its price, making it a much more viable option.
While previously the AMD Radeon HD 7990 'Malta' graphics card retailed for prices ranging from about $1100 to $1200, AMD has now cut down the MSRP price to $799, sitting right on the mark of what the GTX 780 usually costs out on the streets.
It appears that multiple AIB makers have also already adopted the new price, and cards are selling for even lower prices at under $700. Considering that this card can offer frame rates near the GTX Titan and the GTX 690, both of which cost considerably more now, this card may actually have become a viable option.
Another problem has also been (partially) resolved. Previously, and one of the main reasons why this card lacked popularity, was that it has many problems with frame latency. Since a couple of days ago, though, AMD released the Catalyst 13.8 Beta driver, which has a frame-pacing feature that partially fixes the frame-latency problems experienced on CrossFireX systems.
Additionally, let's not forget that the card still comes with the complete Never Settle Bundle, so GTX 780 buyers beware, now you might want to have a look at the Radeon HD 7990 Malta graphics card.
That is a lot of GPU for the money with a lot of free games, if a guy was gonna watercool 1 it seems like it would be a pretty good investment for gaming.
'Never Settle' or settle? Which is it?
That is a lot of GPU for the money with a lot of free games, if a guy was gonna watercool 1 it seems like it would be a pretty good investment for gaming.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709%20600030348%20600451269%20600440544&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20
659 is the cheapest one on the egg
The new MSRP is 699$.
Weird typo.
apparently the HD 9970. Not confirmed..
From what I have read this is just the first version of the driver. The next version is supposed to address Eyefinity setups.
I haven't messed with this driver yet since I am running Windows 8.1 with the preview driver and haven't run into any microstuttering anyways since I only do single GPU setups.
Not gonna push the cart button till frame pacing works on Eyefinity.