{"id":54854,"date":"2013-06-06T13:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T11:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54854"},"modified":"2013-06-06T13:02:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T11:02:35","slug":"sapphire-hd7990-atomic-new-amd-motherboards-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54854-sapphire-hd7990-atomic-new-amd-motherboards-revealed","title":{"rendered":"Sapphire HD7990 Atomic, new AMD motherboards revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sapphire was at Computex 2013 and although the brand hasn&#8217;t been very prominent in recent months, they aim to make some noise with a custom HD7990.<\/p>\n<p>Its called the HD7990 Atomic and it&#8217;s part of Sapphire&#8217;s range of high-end AMD graphics cards that ship with cater coolers. The Atomic uses a custom circuit board with a 12-phase VRM, 6GB of GDDR5 memory, two over-clocked HD7970 cores and a custom water-cooling block that should work with a lot of custom water-cooling setups.<\/p>\n<p>Like the previous HD7990 cards, it requires three 8-pin PEG power connectors and has a maximum TDP of just over 500W. The card requires a backplate for strength and comes with a radiator and pump that fits into a 5.25-inch DVD drive bay.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-54854 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54854-sapphire-hd7990-atomic-new-amd-motherboards-revealed\/attachment\/sapphire-hd7990-atomic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sapphire-HD7990-Atomic-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Sapphire HD7990 Atomic\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-54859\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-54859'>\n\t\t\t\tSapphire HD7990 Atomic\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54854-sapphire-hd7990-atomic-new-amd-motherboards-revealed\/attachment\/sapphire-hd7990-atomic-drive-bay'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sapphire-HD7990-Atomic-drive-bay-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Sapphire HD7990 Atomic drive bay\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-54858\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-54858'>\n\t\t\t\tSapphire HD7990 Atomic drive bay\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54854-sapphire-hd7990-atomic-new-amd-motherboards-revealed\/attachment\/sapphire-pgs-board'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sapphire-PGS-board-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54854-sapphire-hd7990-atomic-new-amd-motherboards-revealed\/attachment\/sapphire-ddr5-board'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sapphire-DDR5-board-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54854-sapphire-hd7990-atomic-new-amd-motherboards-revealed\/attachment\/sapphire-itx-board'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"96\" height=\"68\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Sapphire-ITX-board-96x68.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The really interesting piece of their exhibit was their AMD motherboards. The firm, which is a close partner with AMD, showed off three motherboards using the company&#8217;s APU products. The first one is part of Sapphire&#8217;s PGS lineup for business use. It comes with an AMD FirePro A320 APU pre-installed and supports up to 32GB of memory, has eight SATA 6GB\/s ports supporting multiple variations of RAID and support for Ultra HD 4K monitors.<\/p>\n<p>The other two were much more interesting and quite an early indication of the direction that AMD&#8217;s Kaveri processor family will take. Its called the IPC-FS1r2A75 and it uses socket FS1, a socket first seen with Llano laptops and that currently works with AMD&#8217;s R-series processors which have recently been updated with Jaguar architecture.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting bit about the board is the integrated E6000 (GCN-based) GPU, complete with its own GDDR5 memory chips totalling 1GB of memory. Its complemented by the A75 chipset and offer six mini-Displayport outputs, four HDMI ports, two laptop-size memory slots, four mini-PCI-E slots, five SATA 6GB\/s ports, two Gigabit ethernet ports and 6-channel audio.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re more likely to find this particular board driving a kiosk or a gaming machine inside a casino, but it is interesting that it has the onboard GDDR5 RAM. Its been assumed that AMD would need to integrate GDDR5 memory chips into their motherboard and put Kaveri on a BGA socket to earn money from it, but if boards like these are possible then getting the same power as the PS4 inside your PC will be even easier.<\/p>\n<p>The third, the IPC-FT3GTS, is a ITX board that will run a dual or quad-core Kabini-based G-series chip, AMD HD8000 graphics and a host of connectivity options including HDMI and VGA video ports. Like the other boards here, it supports Eyefinity multi-monitor setups and will work with Ultra HD 4K monitors.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Sapphire Unveils Three APU-based Innovations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/185077\/sapphire-unveils-three-apu-based-innovations.html\" target=\"_blank\">TechpowerUp<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Hardware news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54700-geforce-gtx770-price-roundup.html\">Geforce GTX770 SA price roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54688-intel-atom-the-basis-of-future-celeron-pentium-chips.html\">Intel Atom the basis of future Celeron, Pentium chips<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/54663-play-games-at-uhd-4k-resolution-the-hardware-you-need.html\">Play games at UHD 4K resolution: the hardware you need<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the boards looks like a future design for Kaveri<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":54864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1051,4319,21,9805,9806,10235,2508],"class_list":["post-54854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-amd","tag-amd-apu","tag-headline","tag-kabini","tag-kaveri","tag-saphire-hd7990-atomic","tag-sapphire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54911,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54854\/revisions\/54911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}