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April 24th, 2012

AMD Radeon HD 7990 Coming in Late June

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According to Chinese sources, AMD will release their dual-gpu card in late June. It would happen around Computex 2012 Event, which is held in Taipei from June 5th to 9th.

Earlier rumors suggested that AMD will eventually release their Radeon HD 7990 before NVIDIA unveils GeForce GTX 690. It seems that NVIDIA will win another battle, since ‘something is coming’ on April 28th — most probably GTX 690. This leaves AMD far behind since we are talking about two months here. Late June is probably not the best time to release the most expensive card from whole HD Radeon 7000 lineup. As a reminder, previous dual-gpu card HD 6990 was released in March 2011, so it seems that neither AMD nor NVIDIA keeps their year to year release time line.

According to DonanimHaber, Radeon HD 7990 will be released during Computex 2012, where AMD may officially announce this new card. It’s also said that it will be produced in lower quantities. This release shifting, which was originally planned for April, is related to complexity of HD 7990 built.

Radeon HD 7990 is a dual-gpu card, based on two Tahiti cores, but card will feature New Zealand naming instead. Specs are basically the same as HD 7970, but doubled. We can expect 6GB of GDDR5 ram and 4096 stream processors. However, clocks will be slightly down-clocked. We should expect this card for at least 700$, but it may actually be much higher.

  • Omega0255

    Too little too late~

  • Youngblood

    6gb i want it !

  • Jerome

    Lol I like your statement about Nvidia beating AMD again or AMD late to the punch, you realize AMD has a full range of cards out top to bottom and most importantly in stock.

  • Greenfanfuckboy

    Lol Nvidia will lose same thing that Nvidia did with 680 they waited 5 months after 7970 was out and made gtx 3% faster in some games lol this time amd will do same thing lets see the gtx 690 then 7990 lol 7990 sound so mutch better the number is huge 7990 red power=kill690 and wait for the 12.7 drivers that would kill 680 and 7970 would be the faster

  • http://videocardz.com VideoCardz

    They have, but this article wasn’t about full lineup but dual-gpu cards which are both unreleased (yet).

  • http://videocardz.com VideoCardz

    And then you woke up?

  • BestJinjo

    Wow, we got ourselves a resident fanboy!! HD7970 was on sale starting January 9, 2012. GTX680 was on sale March 21, 2012. 5 months? You failed at math or something?

    3% faster in some games? Again, it’s more like 10-15%, but in more popular games such as BF3, SKYRIM, Batman AC, it reaches 20%. Check some reviews and take your fanboy glasses off. The use of LOL suggests you are 16 though; so expecting any objective judgement is probably unrealistic. 

  • BestJinjo

    The comment meant that NV has won with GTX680. Mostly that statement is true (other than lack of wide availability). In that regard, the statement that NV will once again win with GTX690 > HD7990 is justified since this site is dedicated to enthusiasts. Sure NV has 7750 and 7770, but those cards are garbage. Also, HD7850 and 7870 aren’t exactly setting the world on fire, barely better than 6950/6970, although launched more than 1 year later. That’s not moving the price/performance curve one bit. 

  • Jerome

    Dude you have neither 680 or 7970, your Intel HD 3000 is calling you.  10-15% lol in what crysis, Metro, or in multi-gpu configurations?  I think not, these card trade blows and do not forget to ask where the compute power went!

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  • Juancho9994

    690 is starting to show up now.. hopefully though Amd will do some last minute fixes and beat it with the 7990. One thing however that Amd has over Nvidia is temperature. I remember that under full load, the 590 got to something like 85-90°c, and a 6970 was like on the high 60s, still the performance difference is not that bad

  • Juancho9994

    oh.. and the 690 costs $999