7970 now (which?) vs. 7990 later (when?)

[John P. Myers]

From what i'm seeing, the "7990s" shown at computex are being called 7970 x2. I've seen 1 from HIS and PowerColor. Both are triple slot cards due to massive cooling, but are actually as fast or faster than 2 7970s and only take up 3 slots instead of 4. Most likely double the price as well at around $1000.

The Asus Ares 2 should also be out soon which is a 7870 x2 and will also be a triple slot. Not as fast as a 7970 x2, but much faster than a plain 7970. Will also be a bit cheaper than the 7970 x2's at around $800

Edit: Also the Asus Mars III is due out soon, which is a GTX 680 x2 and is 2 slots wide. 8GB RAM on this beast. Faster than any 690 as well, but exact clocks haven't been released yet. Has 3 8-pin power connectors, same as the 7970 x2's.

EVGA is also about to release a GTX 680 2Win with 4GB RAM also with 3 8-pins.

[zombie67]

Any new news?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...07000%20series

I see GHz versions of lesser chips. But nothing with the 79xx. Also none of the "x2" yet.

I am in need of a new GPU prematurely. One of my 590s was recently killed. I'll post more on that later.

[EmSti]

Any new news?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...07000%20series

I see GHz versions of lesser chips. But nothing with the 79xx. Also none of the "x2" yet.

I am in need of a new GPU prematurely. One of my 590s was recently killed. I'll post more on that later.

Not really, a week ago they were publishing that they would be available in a week and that hasn't happen yet. Maybe post holiday.

[John P. Myers]

http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-rade...ly-/16567.html

fingers crossed it'll be in a couple of weeks. Gotta admit the possible 12GB versions sound really sexy

[zombie67]

http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-rade...ly-/16567.html

fingers crossed it'll be in a couple of weeks. Gotta admit the possible 12GB versions sound really sexy

Cool!

[Slicker]

http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-rade...ly-/16567.html

fingers crossed it'll be in a couple of weeks. Gotta admit the possible 12GB versions sound really sexy

So for apps that can acutually use the video memory, you may need 12GB of system RAM just to feed it which means another 2GB per core @ 8 cores for BOINC CPU projects with high RAM requirementsand you could need as much as 28GB just to crunch with it! Then again with that much memory and video power, one should almost feel like they are on the halodeck when viewing the screen.

[EmSti]

http://www.techhum.com/amd-planning-...es-price-cuts/

Sounds like price cuts are coming too.

[John P. Myers]

Bad news.

Rumor has it the 7990 won't be released now until late August. Also, instead of using 2 of the the new and improved XT2 GPU chips, it'll just use 2 regular Tahiti XT chips.

And to make things more interesting (confusing), it may also require 4 6-pin plugs instead of using 8-pins. Also, the 12GB version may no longer be made.

[John P. Myers]

Edit: Also the Asus Mars III is due out soon, which is a GTX 680 x2 and is 2 slots wide. 8GB RAM on this beast. Faster than any 690 as well, but exact clocks haven't been released yet. Has 3 8-pin power connectors, same as the 7970 x2's.

Update: Clocks have been released. It will run at 1006 MHz, making it 10% faster than a 690 and still using 2 slots. The 8GB of RAM will run at the same speed as a 690.

...not that i recommend getting an Nvidia GPU to crunch with. AMD is still far better imo. It's just something neat worth mentioning.