AMD has showcased their Radeon HD 7990 at the Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.
The GPU is said to be close to noiseless and would contain two cards from the 7900-series...
Various manufactures already released a GPU with two 7900-series cards on board, such as the Asus Ares II. These cards were mostly under-clocked in order to keep heat-issues suppressed.
AMD did not yet release the specs of the GPU, and neither were the clock rates announced. They did claim however that the GPU would receive different configurations than the GPU's from other manufacturers such as the Ares II.
The card will be powered by two 'eight-pin-plugs', whereas the current HD 7990 cards have three. The GPU will also contain four display-ports and one DVI-port. Furthermore, the GPU will be cooled by three 90-millimeter fans, which should make the GPU more or less noiseless, according to AMD.
Another point of interest are the expansion slots. Whereas current 7990-GPU's require three, AMD's upcoming GPU would require only two. These are all the currently available specifications, however AMD stated that the HD 7990 should be the competitor of Nvidia's Titan.
As opposed to earlier rumours, AMD has stated they will be releasing their new videocard-series at the end of 2013, which will be based upon new GPU-architecture.
The previous rumours indicted that AMD would not release new cards with their new architecture until 2014. But AMD have gone to press stating Radeon HD 8000 will be with us by the end of 2013...
Computerworld states that AMD is sure to release a whole new Radeon HD-8000 series based upon new architecture. This means AMD will be rolling out their new high-end graphics cards later this year.
Vice-president of AMD: "Let me be clear: the new products will be based on a new architecture." This means their new high-end GPU's will be rolling out at the end of 2013.
One of their current most powerful cards, the HD 7970, was released at the end of 2011. Due to this, a release of a new series was already expected to take place early 2013, whereas in reality this will be at the end of 2013.
AMD already said to be focusing on improving and optimizing their 7000-series before releasing their new series of GPU's. They will continue working on new driver updates which should improve the overall performance of their current GPU's.
