Hey, what for??? I actually predicted that AMD would finally release official HD 7990.
I would have thought not having the production costs of 2x PCBs and duplication of all the compute hardware would have made a dual GPU card much cheaper to produce than 2 separate cards...and therefore "doable" at around $750?
Because you need to wrap up all this, and come up with a single performance number
Perhaps I should just give Crossfire more of a penalty than SLI for now -- however, it's still not exactly clear just how much would be the ideal "overall" penalty though...
Its a bad idea to have frame pacing off by default in CCC.. the tiny input lag would be unperceivable to almost all gamers. Anyone using NV notice the extra input lag and complaint about their frame pacing on by default?? Nope. AMD should take a clue and have it on by default. Those few special enough to notice the input lag can disable it.
This is a difficult review to follow. For the most part, it showed the 690 doing better than the 7990, but having to click on the buttons to compare stuff was annoying and difficult to get a good picture of stuff. What was really odd was when the 7990 looked better in the graphics, the written article still found the 690 delivering a smoother experience. Perhaps the AMD stutter issue is more complicated than frame pacing.
Where does this it's going to be off by default stuff come from?
Aww,all those wasted adjectives from the AMD haters and TR serves them up a 3 course meal of humble pie lol.AMD has built a mighty fine piece of hardware in the Radeon HD 7990. Consistently high FPS averages attest to its potential as the single most powerful graphics card in the world. At the same time, the 7990 is exceptionally quiet under load. Throw in the fact that it ships with a ridiculous bundle packed with some of the most notable games of the past year, and it's easy to see how the 7990 could grab the crown in the $1K graphics card market.
AMD has built a mighty fine piece of hardware in the Radeon HD 7990. Consistently high FPS averages attest to its potential as the single most powerful graphics card in the world. At the same time, the 7990 is exceptionally quiet under load. Throw in the fact that it ships with a ridiculous bundle packed with some of the most notable games of the past year, and it's easy to see how the 7990 could grab the crown in the $1K graphics card market.
Aww,all those wasted adjectives from the AMD haters and TR serves them up a 3 course meal of humble pie lol.
Semper fi !:thumbsup:
However, we've deployed some advanced tools and metrics to answer some very practical questions about the benefits of the 7990's second GPU, and the answers haven't turned out like one would hope.
The card just doesn't hold up well under the weight of really tough scenarios where smooth gameplay is threatened.
The 7990 does perform a little bit better than its single-GPU counterpart, the Radeon HD 7970, in our Crysis 3 test, but not by a broad margin.
The 7990 doesn't offer an appreciable benefit over the 7970 in our Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs test scenarios.
In each of these cases, the 7990's FPS averages scale to nearly twice the 7970's, but the uneven frame delivery caused by multi-GPU microstuttering blunts the impact of those additional frames.
Worse still, the 7990 runs into some apparent CrossFire compatibility snafus in Far Cry 3 and BioShock Infinite, both AAA titles that AMD has co-marketed and bundled with the card itself.
Yikes. In those two games, you're literally better off playing with a Radeon HD 7970.
This is a difficult review to follow. For the most part, it showed the 690 doing better than the 7990, but having to click on the buttons to compare stuff was annoying and difficult to get a good picture of stuff. What was really odd was when the 7990 looked better in the graphics, the written article still found the 690 delivering a smoother experience. Perhaps the AMD stutter issue is more complicated than frame pacing.
Hey Will, is your browser unable to render the part that follows your quote? Here, have some humble pie LOL:
Aww,all those wasted adjectives from the AMD haters and TR serves them up a 3 course meal of humble pie lol.
Semper fi !:thumbsup:
I assume you didn't read the entire review or you wouldn't have just made a fool of yourself. TR were far from glowing about the 7990 in their review.
It's interesting to note this: "With vsync disabled, those short or "runt" frames may only occupy a handful of horizontal lines across the screen, adding virtually no additional visual information to the picture." - http://techreport.com/review/24703/amd-radeon-hd-7990-graphics-card-reviewed/2
TR never did do a micro-stutter review with vsync on did they.. strange they would make the above statement.
Hey Will, is your browser unable to render the part that follows your quote? Here, have some humble pie LOL:
No they didn't but simply adding vsync does not fix the issue unless the game being tested always delivers higher than 60 FPS.