AMD Radeon HD 7990: Eight Games And A Beastly Card For $1,000

[Thomas Yiu]

Why you didn't add Titan in SLI, you did ATI 7970 CF?

 

[Idonno]

Why you didn't add Titan in SLI, you did ATI 7970 CF?

The 7970 CF has the same GPU's and the same number of GPU's as the card being tested the 7990 so that's kind of a no brainer. For that matter the 680 SLI is the SLI equivalent of the closest competing card to the 7990, the 690. Also, kind of a no brainer.
See how this works now.

 

[softplacetoland]

@Idonno
This is a gaming card, and they tested it primarily for gaming. 7990's have been out a while, so the drivers are not improving much, no more than any other card, this is just the first AMD spec'ed 7990.

The point about the driver being specifically written to help microstutter in a particular game, is if this is how microstutter is going to be fixed, on a game by game basis, then that means new releases and unpopular games will likely have microstutter issues. It would ultimately be best if the microstutter issue can be done as a general fix, rather than a game by game fix. Either way, the fix is a few months away.

I think the one being biased is you. You are over looking serious problems in the area these cards are designed for; gaming. If you bought the card for gaming, its primary intended use, you'd be unsatisfied with the results. In the future, with new drivers, it could change, but we can't see into the future. However, they did give you a hint on what is coming with the Prototype drivers. That is more than most other reviews do.

I'm sorry but you shouldn't be the one who talks about bias. By the way, if this card was designed just for gaming than AMD wouldn't have pay attention at all to computing that much. As Nvidia didn't. There are allrounders and there are specific role players. Even then AMD allrounder is at least on par with Nvidia's protege. If you keep ignoring that, callling people biased is really not field where you should play.

 

[bystander]

I'm sorry but you shouldn't be the one who talks about bias. By the way, if this card was designed just for gaming than AMD wouldn't have pay attention at all to computing that much. As Nvidia didn't. There are allrounders and there are specific role players. Even then AMD allrounder is at least on par with Nvidia's protege. If you keep ignoring that, callling people biased is really not field where you should play.

If these are all around cards and should be compared as such, has there ever been an unbiased review in your eyes? This is about the only review I've seen that even compared the compute abilities. What is your thoughts on every other review out there?

I think it is great they tested the compute aspects of the card, and if someone was interested in that aspect of the card, they can see plan as day what does the best. For most people, they buy gaming cards to game.

 

[Phillip Krause]

AMD drops the MSRP: $799.00 - I'm tempted to Sell our Mac Pro (Dual-Slotted) Quad's and build the Graphics Dream Machine on the Intel/Gigabit platform.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-Radeon-HD-7990-Malta,23820.html

 

[jeffgaribaldi]

Although, I have no plan to build a new computer - if and when I decided I would go with Nvidia

 

[Raumaan2310]

I would still get the 690 as it doesnt do microstuturing like the amd radeon 7990 does