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AMD partners bringing Radeon HD 7970 X2 to Computex

by Parm Mann on 28 May 2012, 11:24

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Details regarding AMD's dual-GPU retort to NVIDIA's benchmark-busting GeForce GTX 690 have been few and far between. Following a rumoured specification for the fabled Radeon HD 7990 back in March, the card that was supposed to take its place atop of AMD's GPU food chain appears to have dropped off the radar.

Perhaps the extreme performance of NVIDIA's new champ has the red team thinking twice, but whatever the reason, we've neither seen nor heard of any HD 7990 progress in the build up to Computex. And there might be some truth to this perceived lack of development, as AMD's partners now appear to be conjuring up dual-GPU solutions of their own.

Presumably in absence of an AMD-designed HD 7990, card manufacturers are rumoured to have been granted a green light to develop customised monster solutions. According to Turkish site Donanimhaber.com, the in-house-designed dual GPU cards will be known as Radeon HD 7970 X2, which in turn hints heavily at the underlying specification. We can expect to see a pair of Tahiti GPUs on a single board alongside 6GB of GDDR5 memory (3GB per GPU).

That will give the GTX 690 challenger a massive 4,096 processor cores, 256 texture units and 64 ROPs all knitted together through on-board CrossFire. Frequencies remain the big mystery, but if add-in-board partners have hopes of beating NVIDIA, we may need to see the Tahiti cores clocked in above the reference 925MHz. A thermal challenge, but one that would explain some of the gargantuan coolers being teased ahead of next week's Computex trade show.



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3x 8-pins? Dear oh dear.
Jimbo75
3x 8-pins? Dear oh dear.

Indeed - it's pretty insane. Thing that worries me is that it'd be a precedent… and that means it might become more commonplace.
Fraz
Jimbo75
3x 8-pins? Dear oh dear.

Indeed - it's pretty insane. Thing that worries me is that it'd be a precedent… and that means it might become more commonplace.

Dear god! Only last month was I running a GPU off PCI power only.
It looks like the card pictured is probably using a pair of Tahiti XT GPUs running at over 1GHZ and is more like a GTX580 MARS card I suspect,and probably is designed to be overclocked a decent amount too. I suspect an official HD7990 will probably have two 8 pin PCI-E power connectors.
Again… 3x PCI-E power connectors?
It really annoys me when they waste customers' money on little “Devil 13” logos too.

6gB may sway me though. My 3870 X2 lasted well too…