Rumoured specs of the insane AMD 7990 Dual Gpu

The Joker

The Joker

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As you guys know I am a AMD fanboy especially when it comes to their gpu's.
While following the development of the new 7xxx cards I came across this last night.

If the spec sheet is anything to go by this card will mutilate any and every other card on the market..something that the current 6990 has already accomplished.

Manufacturer: AMD
Specs status:Rumoured
Series: Radeon HD 7000
GPU Model: New Zealand
Release Date: Q1 2012
Interface: PCI-E 3.0 x16
Core Clock: 850 MHz
Memory Clock: 2500 MHz
Memory Bandwidth: 576 GB/sec <---Almost double the current 6990 M Bandwidth
Max Power Draw: 300 W <----That is insanely low :eek:
Memory Size: 4096 MB
Memory Type: XDR2 <---Not sure if that will be happening :confused:
Memory Bus Type: 2×256 bit
DirectX: 11.0
OpenGL: 4.0
Process: 28 nm
Fragment Pipelines: 4096
Texture Units: 256
Raster: 128

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Looks insane. It'll be interesting to see what the rest of the 7 series has to offer. Is XDR2 the next step up from DDR5?

I'm also a AMD fan, I still love my 5870, best purchase ever.
 
DarthMol said:
Looks insane. It'll be interesting to see what the rest of the 7 series has to offer. Is XDR2 the next step up from DDR5?

I'm also a AMD fan, I still love my 5870, best purchase ever.
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XDR2 is an ultra-high bandwidth and power-efficient memory bus that's competitive with GDDR5, maintained by Rambus, which is claimed by it to be a generation ahead of GDDR5. It's not like XDR2 will be exotic to AIBs, the XDR architecture is used in game consoles where the high-bandwidth offsets low memory capacity by allowing quick streaming of texture data. Rambus licenses XDR memory chip manufacture to notable high-volume vendors.
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Hope that answers you're question mate.
 
Wow that is insane! Would love to see some benchmarks in the near future, I thought the 6990 was quite beast, this is something else.

I went Nvidia with my last purchase, wonder what they are going to bring to the party. I wonder if AMD or Nvidia are going to reach the thermal problems they have had before with the 400 series and 6000 series
 
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whats really interesting is the power requirements
Just the other day i was having an argument with my friend, he believes as the cards get stronger so will PSU requirements be also, i disagreed and said if anything they'd become lower as future generation cards become more efficient....sounds good Joker...
 
Well if the 7990 uses XDR2 would that mean that the rest of the 7 series would or is it just going to be used by the flagship model and will only feature standard in the 8 series?
 
OGBuzz said:
whats really interesting is the power requirements
Just the other day i was having an argument with my friend, he believes as the cards get stronger so will PSU requirements be also, i disagreed and said if anything they'd become lower as future generation cards become more efficient....sounds good Joker...
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Quite correct.
We are seeing it more and more, looking at the current range of gpu's. The smaller processors also means that they run more efficient and they draw alot less power than what the previous gen cards/cpu's drew

simon said:
Well if the 7990 uses XDR2 would that mean that the rest of the 7 series would or is it just going to be used by the flagship model and will only feature standard in the 8 series?
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Nope its rumoured that all the 7xxx gpu's will be running XDR2 memory.
 
The Joker said:
If the current 6990 is anything to go by, expect to pay a cool R7000, that would be my Guesstimate.
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I always guess R8000-R9000 upon release for the monster models.
6990 kinda shifted that bar a little lower, but really, I wasn't too surprised.
Thing is, if the new cards do indeed sport XDR2, that new tech alone should easily set the cards back to my "usual expected" pricing models.
There hasn't been an actual massive memory shift for a while, and I think that's why the latest generation or two of cards came in a bit cheaper than usual.

...Then again, I could just be spinning the tinfoil hat on this one...

The Joker said:
Nope its rumoured that all the 7xxx gpu's will be running XDR2 memory.
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Agreed. It would be most counter-productive from a marketing standpoint to not upgrade all models to the newest tech.
"Sure the tech is available, but we hate you; So give us your money anyway, loser!" doesn't sit too well with customers, no matter what amount of spin you put on it.


On a slightly lopsided on-topic sorta but not really way... (wtf?)
Joker: Do you really think we NEED a memory upgrade though? I'm kinda torn on this... I am still solidly in the belief that this level of memory would be wasted on the rest of the system being simply incapable of utilizing it fully at all.
Tbh, I think we need a proper evolution of slots and buses, before we really start needing more memory bandwidth...
Your thoughts?
 
wheunis said:
I always guess R8000-R9000 upon release for the monster models.
6990 kinda shifted that bar a little lower, but really, I wasn't too surprised.
Thing is, if the new cards do indeed sport XDR2, that new tech alone should easily set the cards back to my "usual expected" pricing models.
There hasn't been an actual massive memory shift for a while, and I think that's why the latest generation or two of cards came in a bit cheaper than usual.

...Then again, I could just be spinning the tinfoil hat on this one...


Agreed. It would be most counter-productive from a marketing standpoint to not upgrade all models to the newest tech.
"Sure the tech is available, but we hate you; So give us your money anyway, loser!" doesn't sit too well with customers, no matter what amount of spin you put on it.


On a slightly lopsided on-topic sorta but not really way... (wtf?)
Joker: Do you really think we NEED a memory upgrade though? I'm kinda torn on this... I am still solidly in the belief that this level of memory would be wasted on the rest of the system being simply incapable of utilizing it fully at all.
Tbh, I think we need a proper evolution of slots and buses, before we really start needing more memory bandwidth...
Your thoughts?
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Well in short Yes.
The more memory bandwidth you have, the better.
A video card with higher memory bandwidth can draw faster and draw higher quality images. All very important when it comes to high end gaming. Like for instance BF3. A 7990 would absolutely destroy BF3 without even blinking just because of the sheer volume of MB available. In this case more is always better.

Its the same with video ram, the more you have (in this case 4GB) the higher you're resolution can be when gaming, as soon as you tread over 1920x1080 and start running serious resolutions you need staunch amount of memory as the higher resolutions use a lot more memory, Yeah sure this only really caters for the super high end gamers.

If you're a guy that just wants to game at 1920x1080 then 2GB memory is more than enough.
 
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But at what point do the textures become too large to efficiently reach the card to begin with?
At some point the choke is gonna go down in system bus bandwidth...
 
Oh, man. this thread got my engines revving. I've never owned a flagship gpu in all my days on this here earth. Thinking this might be my first one. That said, I'll have to be comparing to any nvidia options. I don't thoughtlessly support either company, I tend to put my money down on what is best value for money.
 
wheunis said:
But at what point do the textures become too large to efficiently reach the card to begin with?
At some point the choke is gonna go down in system bus bandwidth...
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Well you're quite right but I am sure they will cater for that when we do reach that point. I do get what you're saying though.
I reckon after the AMD 7xxx and Nvidia 6xxx cards we will see a whole new direction when it comes to GPU's.
Its just the way tech works these days.

strawberry said:
Oh, man. this thread got my engines revving. I've never owned a flagship gpu in all my days on this here earth. Thinking this might be my first one. That said, I'll have to be comparing to any nvidia options. I don't thoughtlessly support either company, I tend to put my money down on what is best value for money.
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If the Nvidia GTX590 is anything to go by then Nvidia failed xD
Hopefully they will be coming to the party with a GTX690 that will compete with the 7990.
As it stands the 6990 is in a different league to the GTX590.
 
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I'll probably end up selling my cards to get one of these.. See how they perform. May just get 2 at a later stage.
 
Kuga said:
I'll probably end up selling my cards to get one of these.. See how they perform. May just get 2 at a later stage.
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Im also getting one on launch. Im really excited for this card :D

Btw Kuga...watch Carb...Im gonna be selling 4 gpu's soon...;)
 
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