AMD provides a sneak peek at its Radeon HD 7990

March 27, 2013

AMD took the wraps off a new high-end reference-design videocard at the end of the company’s GDC press briefing Tuesday night: The dual-GPU Radeon 7990. Details are exceedingly sparse: Matt Skynner, general manager of AMD’s graphics business unit, simply held up the card for the audience to see. “This is the first public showing,” Skynner said. “We’re not saying much about it other than it’s two series-7900 GPUs on a single card, and it’s whisper quiet.” AMDLittle is known about AMD's Radeon HD 7990, other than it will have two 7900-series GPUs and three cooling fans. As you can see from this slide taken from AMD’s presentation, it’s a full-size, dual-slot card. A heat sink runs the length of the board, and there are three cooling fans. AMD had previously mentioned that the Radeon 7990, code-named Malta, at the CeBit trade show in Germany, but this is the first time the card has been shown. The Radeon HD 7990 will compete with Nvidia’s Titan for fastest video card on the planet when the card ships (unless Nvidia manages to come out with a dual-Titan card). Expect to see cards like this at retail before the end of the first half of the year, because AMD is expected to ship its Radeon HD 8000 series GPUs in the second half. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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