Report: AMD's Codename Malta GPU Will be Radeon HD 7990
Fudzilla has got its hands on some more information regarding AMD's upcoming HD 7990 GPU.
A report at Fudzilla mentions that the Radeon HD 7990 GPU is codenamed Malta, and not what we were previously led to believe, New Zealand. Moreover, the the card could feature dual Tahiti XT cores that may run above 1 GHz, which might leave Asus somewhat concerned. Asus's fastest card on the market at the moment is its ARES II card, which is a Dual 7970 card that has its own liquid cooling loop. Asus's card is clocked at 1050 base and 1150 Boost, but the reports indicate that AMD might be looking to exceed these speeds with the Malta GPU.
Other information is that the card will come packed with a massive 6 GB of GDDR5 memory (unsurprising seen as the 7970 carries 3 GB) along a 2 x 384-bit memory interface.
Sources also indicate that the card would launch within a few months from now, but some of Fudzilla's other sources claim that the card is around the corner. It is fair to assume that AMD is waiting for the real world tests of Nvidia's new GeForce GTX Titan, and then clock and price its 7990 accordingly.
Unfortunately that's all the information we have for the time being, but it's good to see that AMD is living up to its promise of delivering more HD 7000 goodness this year.
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Titan is still in a class of it's own though. Titan is the only Single GPU as of now that can truly play Crysis 3 at Very High and get 60fps... and that is just 1080p.(Though, I am not saying that it makes sense to buy a freaking 1k dollar GPU for one game...)
The Titan was for the price, disappointing. If it did match the 690 or even the 670 SLI then it would have been fine but no.
It performed more like 660Ti SLI.
Titan is still in a class of it's own though. Titan is the only Single GPU as of now that can truly play Crysis 3 at Very High and get 60fps... and that is just 1080p.(Though, I am not saying that it makes sense to buy a freaking 1k dollar GPU for one game...)
Ever since I was disappointed with the GTX Titan review couple days ago, and also surprised by the benchmark results of the 7970 series during comparison mind you, looks like I might be looking forward to the 7990~ ^_^
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The Titan was for the price, disappointing. If it did match the 690 or even the 670 SLI then it would have been fine but no.
It performed more like 660Ti SLI.
Same here... LOL
All the more so if they announce price cuts on the same day the 7990 is released,
just to rain on their parade.
I feel you brother, I feel you.
nvidia is more likely to create flying pigs than to cut the price of the titan by half any time in the near future. nvidia priced it at $1000 despite the 690(their very own top card) smacking it around in everything. even if the 7990 is better, its more likely to see a 690 price drop. But thats also unlikely because at that price point and power its mostly the diehard fans who buy. A $50 price drop wont affect the sale of a $1000 card by alot.
No drivers from AMD, it is going to suck in scaling the gpus, and may even hinder some games past the level of a much cheaper card.
Surprise anyone? Is Malta comes, then ASUS has a major problem on their hands, their flagship AMD card is going to fail miserably for the price.
I hope they don't go all nVIDIA on the pricing though.
So does this mean an actual USABLE 6gb of VRAM, or is it just another one of those marketing scams where they add up the x2 3gb VRAMs that just mirror each other?
This card is a dual-GPU card running CrossFire, same as running 2 7970s. There are only a few differences, mainly that it has 2 GPUs on one card and they share PCI Express bandwidth via a PLX chip.
The card still appears as 2 7970s to the system, and any (all) 7xxx AMD drivers that support CrossFire 7970s will support ARES II, and the profiles that work on CF will work on ARES II.
The ARES II does not use any proprietary tech that make it incompatible with AMD's drivers! It has a beefed up board & power design and a better cooler.
Yes and no. If you've read the Anandtech article there are a number of GPGPU bench comparisons missing due to broken drivers. Link to the article below:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6774/nvidias-geforce-gtx-titan-part-2-titans-performance-unveiled/4
Considering the x2 384-bit memory interface, we shall consider that the HD7990 is a dual-GPU. So, it's one of those marketing scams.