AMD of course is dropping new drivers for the 7990 Catalyst 13.5b2 but NVIDIA also dropped their new 320.00 drivers at the end of last week.
What a horrible, horrible graphics card. Overpriced, cheap looking and nowhere near worth the asking price price considering it gets its assed kicked stupid by the GTX690.
Anyone who purchases this over a GTX690 needs their head examined.
As far as performance goes, its interesting to note that if we throw out the extremely lopsided DiRT: Showdown, the GTX 690 and the 7990 are statistically tied at 2560x1400: the 7990 delivers 100% of the performance of the GTX 690.
Actual 3D performance gained from overclocking is 4.1%.
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/AMD-Radeon-HD-7990-6GB-Review-Malta-Gets-Frame-Rated3DMark Fire Strike Extreme result only increased about 1%
Instead of releasing this card they should have tried to take back the sgpu performance crown from NV.That way many people who prefer sgpu over mgpu would be pleased.
That would have cost them money, and probably required a new node... Neither of which are really feasible at this time.
Worst than Titan in every aspect: slow, power hungry, hot, lazy OC. :biggrin:
That would have cost them money, and probably required a new node... Neither of which are really feasible at this time.
Where did you see it getting beat? In the AT review it was basically tied with the exception of Dirt 3 which is beat soundly. Granted that was based off of 10 games so I'm curious where you are reading otherwise. (will check later)
imo (so far) it's equal to the 690, but waaay late to the game (presuming the stutter is fixed).
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6915/amd-radeon-hd-7990-review-7990-gets-official/17
Interesting how it looks when you remove useless low resolutions and blizzard games (which hardly need gpu grunt to begin with):
As you may or may not know, 150 fps in BF3 is reaching CPU bottleneck. I guess you know it but decided to omit such facts when you are too busy with bias.
It's not even really priced competitively for an AMD product, even against their own stack.
They could if they wanted, its a small die, 365mm2 has plenty of room. But it was never their goals to compete with massive dies. They simply lack the HPC profit margins to subsidize consumer graphics like NV can.
Those who want smooth frame time without using 3rd party tools, well its coming and according to PCPer, it works. For the rest, there's radeon pro.
The bulk of our gaming involved AMDs Catalyst 13.5 Beta 2 driver. However, I surprised the group by dropping AMDs special prototype driver onto the Radeon HD 7990-equipped machine. Without telling anyone what the software was supposed to do, I asked them to retry titles they had already played. Again, the response was universal: action on the dual-Tahiti board was noticeably smoother in most games, but seemed intermittently choppy in a couple of others (Crysis 3 and Tomb Raider).