Report: AMD Radeon HD 7990 6GB Ready To Launch
There is new speculation surrounding AMD's new high-end graphics card, the HD7990.
Originally scheduled for a June launch, AMD is apparently still finalizing the product is now rumored to be prepping a launch at GamesCon in Cologne, Germany, between August 15 and 19.
An article published by VR-Zone suggests that the very limited availability, dual-GPU card will integrate a four 6-pin PCIe interface to manage the power supply for the Tahiti XT core, 3 GB GDDR5 memory per core and a PLX PCIe 3.0 controller. The report also claims that the monstrous card will have six physical display outputs with four mini-DisplayPort and two DVI links.
Pricing is, of course, even more speculation than the product itself, as availability will largely determine the price of this low-volume card. However, it is reasonable to assume that the 7990 will be more expensive than the model it replaces - the 6990 currently retails in the $700 to $900 range - while it will be cheaper than Nvidia's expensive, 4 GB GTX 690. Depending on the retailer, GTX 690 models currently sell for just under $1,000 to more than $2,700 at this time, with the majority of cards circling the $1,100 territory.

They don't want to trigger OCP on the 12V rail of some PSUs with that much power draw. They want to use four 6-pin to ensure less "user error."
I agree. You just have to add/use more cables than you need when you can actually get the same power output from 2 8-pin. Weird move indeed
They don't want to trigger OCP on the 12V rail of some PSUs with that much power draw. They want to use four 6-pin to ensure less "user error."
It will be allow you to run BF3 on Ultra with 5 monitors haha. Besides that, there is very few who would buy this for professional use. We don't even know the temps.
i would rather see on making a 8XXX series, a refinement and performance imporvement over 7XXX. now that 28nm should be stable enough to make larger gpus without too low of yeilds.
i would rather see on making a 8XXX series, a refinement and performance imporvement over 7XXX. now that 28nm should be stable enough to make larger gpus without too low of yeilds.
Larger GPUs shouldn't be necessary as much as simply improving or replacing the GCN architecture and keeping the chip size fairly similar to what it is now. Higher yields with the same chip size should mean lower costs because each wafer would be more likely to have more functional chips, so you could get higher performance with lower costs of manufacturing that allow prices to drop without profit margins to drop.
It's probably cus they rushed it and just mashed two HD 7950s together (which uses two 6pins each).
My bet is on more than $100 cheaper unless it has even worse stock issues than the 690 has.
...you know what? Forget it. I just did some research on some old video cards while typing this. These prices are nothing new. The GTX280 used to cost $500, just like the GTX680 does now. Instead, I shall hope for a price war in order to drive down the prices!
-CB
Will be very useful for the Folding@home distributed computing project!
HD 7990 vs GTX 690.
I like 690 actually i'm not a fan of nvidia if you people thought that i'm.