Rumor: Radeon HD 7990 Set to Launch After Nvidia's Kepler

[jgutz2006]

I've been waiting to upgrade my 2GB 5870 Eyefinity 6 Sapphire card with a 7970, i've been waiting, assuming that the 680 and now the 7990 will help drive prices of the 7970 down a bit?? last 4 GPU's have been upgraded every other generation so may as well keep that rolling and the 5870 was the first ATI card and dont see that changing unless something amazing happens with these upcoming releases!

 

[kinggremlin]

I fail to see the point of this product from a sound business perspective. This looks like a ridiculously complex and over the top card that caters to practically no one but fanboys who can't afford it but have nothing better to do than argue who is better on the internet. Halo products may work for certain markets, it doesn't work in the PC video card market where 95% of the market is searching for the best bang for buck product in their budget (ie not $850+) and can view countless reviews of every card from the comfort of their desk at home rendering the effect of the halo card nil.

How about spending the development costs you put into this ridiculous card into making the mainstream cards that users will actually buy better/cheaper?

 

[A Bad Day]

[citation][nom]kinggremlin[/nom]I fail to see the point of this product from a sound business perspective. This looks like a ridiculously complex and over the top card that caters to practically no one but fanboys who can't afford it but have nothing better to do than argue who is better on the internet. Halo products may work for certain markets, it doesn't work in the PC video card market where 95% of the market is searching for the best bang for buck product in their budget (ie not $850+) and can view countless reviews of every card from the comfort of their desk at home rendering the effect of the halo card nil.How about spending the development costs you put into this ridiculous card into making the mainstream cards that users will actually buy better/cheaper?[/citation]

There's a reason why some companies manufacturer luxury cars, or gold plated smartphones, or luxury yachts, or an-arm-and-a-leg special glass table.

Because luxury items have huge profit margins on them.

I'm fairly sure the 7990s would make significant amount of money to compensate for their low sales due to smaller amount of customers.

 

[BestJinjo]

Quake, I wasn't saying GTX480 is a good card or that it's better than an HD7950 - obviously NOT! My point was that buying these $500-800 GPUs is a huge waste right now. Back then, we wanted to max out Crysis Metro 2033, Witcher 2. Now we have beaten those games. What's left to max out? Mass Effect 3, Diablo 3, Bioshock Infinite, Syndicate, Max Payne 3, Starcraft II: HotS => All can be maxed out with last generation of cards.

At least HD7870 makes it clear why HD7950 is overpriced and unbalanced. It's ROP starved. $450 for that card is a horrible value, especially now that GTX580s fell to $370. Better yet, HD7870 is even more efficient.

In the case of HD7990, it's somewhat useful for Eyefinity or 2560x1600 displays. Plus it can be sold later easily to bitcoin miners. HD7950 will drop in value $200 in no time (probably less than 15 months).

 

[new003]

I wonder if the electrical companies sponser the tech world secretly.

 

[tomfreak]

[citation][nom]A Bad Day[/nom]There's a reason why some companies manufacturer luxury cars, or gold plated smartphones, or luxury yachts, or an-arm-and-a-leg special glass table.Because luxury items have huge profit margins on them.I'm fairly sure the 7990s would make significant amount of money to compensate for their low sales due to smaller amount of customers.[/citation]With the amount of SLI/Crossfire enabled mobo so common thee days, dual GPU is a total waste of money, it doesnt perform as good as dual 7970, it almost equally expensive.

Those who got money to buy 2x7990 probably got mobo with 4x PCIE x16. So again dual GPU is waste of money. Its not like we can run four 7990s filling up all the 8 expansion slot the ATX case can offer.

 

[Guest]

Lower (hopefully) 7970 prices FTW!

 

[eddieroolz]

Hopefully the 7990 would be better executed than the 6990 series.

 

[iamtheking123]

[citation][nom]Ohmybad[/nom]people that cry about bad AMD/Nvida drivers are computer illiterate.[/citation]
To this day I still have glitching and overlay issues with my 5850 drivers. For example, if I play a full screen game with VLC open the game artifacts where the VLC window is . Nvidia just makes a more polished product...both in terms of functionality and the control panel. Deal with it.

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]hixbot[/nom]Frankly I'm opposed to SLI/Crossfire in any way. Any micro stuttering at all is not acceptable. I prefer my games naturally aspirated[/citation]

Three and four GPU setups tend to be more smooth than a single GPU. It's mainly the dual GPU setups that suffer micro-stuttering. Triple and quad GPU setups trade a little scaling compared to dual and single GPU setups to get smooth (less variable) frame rates and minimalize micro-stuttering down to and even below that of a single GPU. Quad GPUs is as smooth as you can get where micro-stuttering is concerned.

There are at least three Tom's articles that I've read over this and last year that involved three and four GPU performance scaling and multi-GPU problems such as highly variable frame rates and micro-stuttering.

[citation][nom]iamtheking123[/nom]To this day I still have glitching and overlay issues with my 5850 drivers. For example, if I play a full screen game with VLC open the game artifacts where the VLC window is . Nvidia just makes a more polished product...both in terms of functionality and the control panel. Deal with it.[/citation]

I don't have such a problem with any of my current video cards, be they AMD/Ati, Nvidia, or my Intel IGPs. I have plenty of systems around and none of them do anything like that. You might not be using the latest drivers for your 5850. AMD/Ati had problems in the past, but they are pretty much fixed now if you use the latest drivers.

 

[karthikjusme]

i don't think we'll be needing dual gpu's since cards like 7970 and gtx 680 provide greater and smoother frame rates` and also consume very less power

 

[CyberAngel]

[citation][nom]hixbot[/nom]Frankly I'm opposed to SLI/Crossfire in any way. Any micro stuttering at all is not acceptable. I prefer my games naturally aspirated[/citation]

Hmmm...haven't tested, but what if you have 3 LCD (Flight sim?) in 3D and 3 cards SLI/Crossfire
and each card would go to each monitor
then no microstutter whatsoever ???
(4th place is for particle physics perhaps?)

Any article on this? (I could not find one - hard to guess the correct name for search?)

 

[CyberAngel]

try using 3 screens in 3D and THEN you'll understand!
(looks great BTW, although the 3 sometimes seems to gives a headache)

[citation][nom]BestJinjo[/nom]Quake, I wasn't saying GTX480 is a good card or that it's better than an HD7950 - obviously NOT! My point was that buying these $500-800 GPUs is a huge waste right now. Back then, we wanted to max out Crysis Metro 2033, Witcher 2. Now we have beaten those games. What's left to max out? Mass Effect 3, Diablo 3, Bioshock Infinite, Syndicate, Max Payne 3, Starcraft II: HotS => All can be maxed out with last generation of cards.At least HD7870 makes it clear why HD7950 is overpriced and unbalanced. It's ROP starved. $450 for that card is a horrible value, especially now that GTX580s fell to $370. Better yet, HD7870 is even more efficient.In the case of HD7990, it's somewhat useful for Eyefinity or 2560x1600 displays. Plus it can be sold later easily to bitcoin miners. HD7950 will drop in value $200 in no time (probably less than 15 months).[/citation]