Report: AMD to Discontinue Radeon HD 7990 in Q3 2013

[blppt]

"The crossfire problem isn't a latency issue, it is a frame metering issue. Crossfire on a single board or on two different cards does not fix the metering issue. They are working on a new set of drivers which will make the frame variance between multiple GPU's more consistent. "

So, basically, what you are saying is that the 7990 is no different than a 2x 7970 setup in terms of having certain issues with CFX. In that sense, there is absolutely nothing unexpected about its performance---slightly slower than 2 7970s (lower clocks).

It would be something else entirely if the 7990 added CFX issues than 2 7970s dont have. Thats what I think is misleading about this article---the 7990 itself is not being (possibly) cancelled because it is especially flawed, its because of AMDs basically poor CFX coding (which would affect 2 7970s just as bad, if not worse).

I'm just saying---the 7990 did not apparently deliver anything you wouldnt have gotten already with 2 7970s, so I'm not sure why everyone is down on it---it is exactly what it should be, (almost) 2 7970s on a single board for those of us with space issues or lack of extra PCI-E slots. The fault lies with AMD's CFX driver writers, which would apparently be an issue no matter what 79x0, 78x0 etc series you had running in Crossfire.

 

[jn77]

I think that both AMD (ATI) and Nvidia will have problems with $1000 cards at some point because the number of people that can actually afford that keeps becoming less and less.

When I started building PC's the flagship video cards that were state of the art where selling for $399-$499 USD.

If I could buy a flagship AMD or Nvidia card for $399-$499 today (current models) not 10 year old tech; I might actually buy 2 cards, maybe 4.

 

[renz496]

During recent years I used:

4850
6850
7870 <= now

never had any issues with drivers (nor when playing "corrupt by nVidia partnership software" games)

Supporting nVidia means supporting proprietary crap (CUDA, physX (buying a company and corrupting it's code not to work with competitors hardare, a way to go doNtvidia) and killing the competition. (nVidia kept to dominate the market even in times of Fermi like garbage)
While AMD sticks to open standars available to all players, like OpenCL

who came up with the idea of GPGPU and gpu accelerated stuff to begin with? also physx code does not meant to work with any type of gpu anyway. the whole point is to offload all physics calculation to AEGIA proprietary hardware. so there is no such a thing about 'corrupting it's code not to work with competitor hardware' to begin with. nvidia buy the company so it is logical for them to make softwares related to it work on their competitor hardware as well? eventually nvidia did offering amd to licence physx so physx can run on amd gpu but they refuse and intend to fight physx with bullet physics with opencl. and we know how well exactly that turns out.

if somehow AMD in nvidia position right now i dare to bet they might doing what nvidia been doing right now. for example if their STREAM initiative really come out well they will push that instead of OpenCL

 

[SkateZilla]

I'll get one when it drops in price.. lol.

 

[Guest]

Ati/AMD always had bad drivers. For example mouse cursor goes out of view. You need to install frame .Network or something under XP before installing the drivers it's a 300MB program! To download from the Internet it takes a lot of time to find the right version. Nvidia is so much better on this, same price for the same performance so why bother? Also Nvidia has Cuda for gpu rendering , but I am not fan of gpu render, cpu is still king imo. Also not a fan of integrated gpu on a cpu die...why will people still buy a gpu in the future? And what about cooling the heat? Since Firefox became gpu accelerated I switched to Opera because all it did was crash. Multi threaded cpu's still aren't used well for 99.9% of the time and this after more then a decade. I am not a programmer but must be a nightmare to program to let all those gpu cores work together well.

Anyway Titan cannot be overclocked this card CAN so that's a plus.

 

[Steveymoo]

I am probably wrong about this, but considering how long it's taking AMD to find a driver based solution to Xfire microstutter, I am beginning to suspect it may well be some kind of unfixable hardware limitation. Hopefully the next generation will be released with absolutely no issues like this though, AMD will probably be losing enthusiast trust from the richer gamers out there.

 

[spat55]

I just want the HD 9xxx and GTX 8xx series to come out so I can upgrade from a HD 7850. The HD 7850 is a wonderful card, but now I have a 1440p monitor, it can be slightly annoying even though it is overclocked to HD 7870 speeds.

 

[internetlad]

talk about a flop.

 

[smeezekitty]

talk about a flop.

More like 7 teraflops 😉

 

[mitchellvii]

You know, my 6950 (flashed to a 6970 and overclocked with MSI Afterburner) will play the top games maxxed at 45 to 60 FPS - in other words, totally smooth. Unless you are setting up a triple monitor rig or 3D, I can't see the need to get 120 FPS in a game.

 

[renz496]

You know, my 6950 (flashed to a 6970 and overclocked with MSI Afterburner) will play the top games maxxed at 45 to 60 FPS - in other words, totally smooth. Unless you are setting up a triple monitor rig or 3D, I can't see the need to get 120 FPS in a game.

120fps for 3d is a must because the frame rates are cut to half when in 3d. but why people did not want 120 fps on single monitor? there are as blind test in regard to 60fps and 120fps and from the result more gamer prefer game with much higher frame rates than 60

http://techreport.com/news/25051/blind-test-suggests-gamers-overwhelmingly-prefer-120hz-refresh-rates

also triple monitor doesn't need 120hz monitor to work

 

[redeemer]

Awesome for mining

 

[iam2thecrowe]

Awesome for mining

although it has been proven you dont make any real profit from mining.