Powercolor HD 7990 Devil 13 6 GB Review

[Durvelle27]

in some benchmarks it did worst than the HD 7970 GHz Edition

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/HD_7990_Devil_13/1.html

 

[markyd]

in some benchmarks it did worst than the HD 7970 GHz Edition

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/HD_7990_Devil_13/8.html

dont worry, in 6 months time there will be new drivers and everyone on this forum will recommend it.

 

[Durvelle27]

dont worry, in 6 months time there will be new drivers and everyone on this forum will recommend it.

Cost $999 and its 11% slower than a GTX 690, and overheats ? hmm need a good quality company to produce a better one ?

 

[chimaxi83]

it draws 550W, Cost $999, its 11% slower than a GTX 690, and overheats ? hmm need a good quality company to produce a better one ?

That's just ignorance on your part, W1zzard specifically said:

PowerColor's card also needs a ton of power, up to 550 W - just the card alone (in Furmark). During typical gaming we see power draw in the 260-300 W range, which is similar to what you can expect from two separate HD 7970s in CrossFire.

Do we take Furmark power consumption seriously?

 

[Durvelle27]

in my opinion i i say just get 2x HD 7970 Ghz Editions

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/588?vs=586

 

[AnandThenMan]

Most definitely would be much smarter to get 2 (or even 3) cards instead of this thing. Card should never have been made honestly.

 

[blastingcap]

If you can wait, get GK110 and bypass multi-GPU problems.

 

[Bull Dog]

I find this thread title misleading. It should be, "Powercolor HD 7990 Devil 13 review."
To date, AMD has not produced a 7990 and as such this ISN'T a review of an AMD Radeon HD 7990.

Further, instead of linking to the beginning of the review, the link goes to page 8.....Which, quite unaccidentally, links to Battlefield 3 scores which as we already know, AMD's cards are weak(er) in.

 

[AnandThenMan]

Further, instead of linking to the beginning of the review, the link goes to page 8.....Which, quite unaccidentally, links to Battlefield 3 scores which as we already know, AMD's cards are weak(er) in.

The 3 people that will buy this card are very angry.

 

[OCGuy]

Good god that is an awful card.

 

[SolMiester]

TBH, the results look better than I expected given the power envelope they had to work with.....

 

[Haserath]

AMD dual cards always seem hot and loud... Made worse by the fact that it's like the 6990 v 590 on power. Probably why AMD cancelled it.

 

[cmdrdredd]

This was a total waste of time to design.

 

[funboy6942]

If anything that review showed why I run 2 6970 (6990) cards. It spanks even the 7970 GHZ edition.

 

[cmdrdredd]

If anything that review showed why I run 2 6970 (6990) cards. It spanks even the 7970 GHZ edition.

So you compare a dual GPU setup to a single GPU and call it fair? I fully expect a pair of GTX 670s to beat a single GTX 780 in many games next round.

 

[funboy6942]

Im running 2 HD6970's, which is basically a HD6990, which according to the review beats a 7970 and didnt cost me near as much to put the 2 together. So Im trying to show how the 2 cards or one 6990 can give better results then buying the flagship 7970 for $400~

May as well ask the author of the article why they bothered to put the 7990 against single gpu cards as well.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Im running 2 HD6970's, which is basically a HD6990, which according to the review beats a 7970 and didnt cost me near as much to put the 2 together. So Im trying to show how the 2 cards or one 6990 can give better results then buying the flagship 7970 for $400~

May as well ask the author of the article why they bothered to put the 7990 against single gpu cards as well.

1) My point is I always expect the high end dual GPU from last gen to beat a single GPU from next gen by a bit.

2) They showed this because in many games the 7990 is actually MUCH slower than a single 680 or 7970.

 

[toyota]

why does W1zzard receive so many defective cards? this at least the third card in that last few months that he has tested where the cooler was not even attached properly.

 

[Durvelle27]

Im running 2 HD6970's, which is basically a HD6990, which according to the review beats a 7970 and didnt cost me near as much to put the 2 together. So Im trying to show how the 2 cards or one 6990 can give better results then buying the flagship 7970 for $400~

May as well ask the author of the article why they bothered to put the 7990 against single gpu cards as well.

doesn't look like a lot to me

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/515?vs=618

 

[piesquared]

All this shows is that drivers are not optimised for the this card. Could either mean that theses are not release drivers, or AMD has decided to not release a 7990 and are putting there focus on Sea Islands, or another possibility, but clearly these drivers are unoptimized.

 

[cmdrdredd]

All this shows is that drivers are not optimised for the this card. Could either mean that theses are not release drivers, or AMD has decided to not release a 7990 and are putting there focus on Sea Islands, or another possibility, but clearly these drivers are unoptimized.

These are the same drivers that someone running 2x HD 7950s would use and to the drivers this card is just simply two HD 7950 or 7970s. The drivers don't care if it's on one card or two, it sees it as two GPUs. Powercolor doesn't make the drivers and no, AMD is not going to make special drivers for this card.

why does W1zzard receive so many defective cards? this at least the third card in that last few months that he has tested where the cooler was not even attached properly.

I didn't actually read the review, but is that what the picture was trying to say with the washers to shim out the space in the screw?

 

[Jeff007245]

Doesn't look as bad as some of you are making it out to be. Looks good enough to run my eyefinity setup.The looks and branding alone of the card is worth it for me. I'm going to return my XFX 7970 ghz edition (which keeps shutting off and fans going 100% and screen going black with no signal) to amazon and just pay double for this awesome looking card.

The only thing stopping me is if AMD surprises us all and plans to release their own 7990 with the ghz edition xt2 chips... Which from what I have been hearing is unlikely... but still.

Hopefully amazon gets them in stock soon so I don't have to order from new egg or ncix and pay sales tax and shipping....

 

[piesquared]

These are the same drivers that someone running 2x HD 7950s would use and to the drivers this card is just simply two HD 7950 or 7970s. The drivers don't care if it's on one card or two, it sees it as two GPUs. Powercolor doesn't make the drivers and no, AMD is not going to make special drivers for this card.

Look at the review that is not the case. The drivers are not optimized for the 7990 it doesn't scale.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Look at the review that is not the case. The drivers are not optimized for the 7990 it doesn't scale.

Uh...no...this is a card with a bridge chip. It works just the same as the GTX 690 works.

In the most basic terms it is two GPUs in crossfire mode on a single card. Nothing in the review indicates it needs special drivers, Wizzard even used the standard 12.7 beta that everyone uses. The bridge chip adds latency which may affect the performance some, but the larger issue in my eyes is that the card just doesn't work sometimes. It is not likely something drivers can fix because as I said before the drivers see two GPUs in crossfire mode and don't care or know whether it's on one card or two cards. There is likely a reason AMD never made a 7990 and probably won't. The results speak for themselves.

 

[djnsmith7]

New drivers should bump up this card quite a bit. At the very least, this card should run head to head with the 690. Doesn't seem like the drivers are matching up with this card.