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7990 rips apart the GTX 690 (Benches)

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http://www.techpowerup.com/183026/A...-Speeds-and-Core-Config-Confirmed-Tested.html

Seems AMD knows what's it doing. I think no drivers can optimize the 690 even more, and the 7990 is heavily un-optimized.
Probably the pricetag is even less that 1000$.
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Sigh.

1) Welcome to the forum
2) That thread title looks like flame bait to me. As does the general tone of your post.
3) Did you even look at the sticky post at the top of the forum? There is already a link this info. No need to create another one.
 
I seem to remember hitting 9000 on a single 7950?

Firestrike isn't a good bench for Nvidia, but hey, it rips everything apart, including frame times and the frames themselves. :hmm:
 
A single bench in a suite of benches = "rips apart"?

I'll leave this here... 3.7fps difference.

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I don't know what you mean by "the 7990 is heavily un-optimized", because the 7990 is nothing but 7970's crossfired. It is as optimized as it'll get, other than the microstutter issue that they are working to fix.

We all knew the 7990 would compare to the 690 as the 7970 CF does to 680 SLI. I expected even a little wider gap, as the 690's are underclocked 680's, the 7990 isn't underclocked.
 
bystander36 said:
I don't know what you mean by "the 7990 is heavily un-optimized", because the 7990 is nothing but 7970's crossfired. It is as optimized as it'll get, other than the microstutter issue that they are working to fix.
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If one is incredibly charitable by assuming that the rumors about the 7990 using update GCN parts - in a similar fashion to the 7790 - is true, there may be some way to possibly view this as being a semi-reasonable thing to say under a pseudonym on the internet.
 
I don't care how great the numbers may look. Until they can fix the microstuttering problems in their drivers, it's pretty much a mute point.

I personally would always rather have a single fast card than 2 in Crossfire or SLI.

I'll hold off until AMD and Nvidia's next Gen of cards are released.

My GTX 660 is running everything i play just fine.
 
I just realized that was 3Dmark Firestrike. That benchmark heavily favors Crossfire to begin with. The comparisons will still favor the 7990, but not by that much in other applications.
 
The title's dumb, IMO. The 7990 is faster than the 690. Nobody should be surprised. It's not that much faster though by these benches to say it "rips apart" the 690.

Three things I'm interested in:

1, New drivers that give us more consistent scaling with smooth frame delivery at least the equivalent of the 690.
2, A quieter cool solution that rivals the execution of the 690. If AMD can't give us this almost a year after the 690 was released then they are just begging for the onslaught of criticism they are going to receive.
3, Price. Meet the above criteria at $800USD and AMD has a winner. It will render the 690 at it's current price obsolete. Give it to us at ~$700 and they have a game changer. It would effectively eliminate both the 690 and the Titan. nVidia's only answer would be to drastically reduce the prices of both cards. In all likelihood though it won't be as good as the 690 overall. I can't see AMD being able to get crossfire up to the level of current SLI this fast. I do believe though that the card will be cool and quiet with the monster cooler it's sporting. It's probably going to be too expensive as well. That seems to be the way the industry is going. Where it used to be 50% more performance for the same price it's now 50% more performance for twice the price.
 
I mean isn't it a year AFTER the 690? So it should be expected to surpass it...and it's kind of coming out right before the launch of the GTX 700 line right ? So it won't stay on top for too long
 
lilrayray69 said:
I mean isn't it a year AFTER the 690? So it should be expected to surpass it...and it's kind of coming out right before the launch of the GTX 700 line right ? So it won't stay on top for too long
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The 690 is, IMO, the best dually ever released. Cool, quiet, efficient, and powerful. It's only shortcoming, and it is a quite major one, is it's voltage locked. The 7990 isn't going to match the 690's efficiency (unless AMD has come up with some really special sauce). Hopefully it will surpass it in every other metric. The Tahiti chip has the potential to do so. It's a more powerful chip than GK104. Here's keeping fingers crossed that AMD can execute here. Their motto lately has been, "We have the best cards and we're going to prove it." This leaves me with hope, but AMD has let us down before.

I haven't heard anything about next gen from either company. I'm not expecting 700 series anytime soon.
 
cmdrdredd said:
A single bench in a suite of benches = "rips apart"?

I'll leave this here... 3.7fps difference.

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I would still like to know how AMD get 100+% on CF...The law of physics just doesnt apply to AMD hardware I guess, if you can get greater than the sum of two products....however i suppose runt frames probably help...
 
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