Announcing Sapphire’s HD 7990 6GB GDDR5

Sapphire has just released their new dual-GPU HD 7990 which they say is the fastest video card in the world.  Here is an overview.

The Sapphire HD 7990 has a dual GPU architecture with a total of 4096 Stream processors and core clock speeds of 1GHz (with Boost enabled), delivering up to 8.2 TeraFlops of compute power. It is equipped with 6GB of the latest DDR5 memory, and its output configuration of Dual-Link DVI plus four DisplayPorts supports up to 5 simultaneous displays in AMD Eyefinity. A large heatpipe assembly cooled by three axial fans ensures that the card runs quietly even under load.

AMD’s GCN architecture and driver suite is optimised to display the greatest image quality in gaming and this latest card delivers the highest performance yet – and the fastest frame rates in even the most demanding games. It also provides enhanced performance in a wide range of applications using the stream processing capabilities and specific hardware features of this graphics architecture. Typical examples include Video encoding and decoding, compression and multiplexing for media distribution, and video conferencing as well as accelerating specific supported applications.

         Features:

1. Graphics Core Next(GCN) architecture based on 28 nm process
2. DirectX® 11.1-capable      graphics

• 9th generation programmable hardware tessellation units
• Shader Model 5.0
• DirectCompute 11
• Accelerated multi-threading
• HDR texture compression
• Order-independent transparency
• Up to 6 displays supported with DisplayPort 1.2 Multi-Stream Transport
• Independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
• Display grouping -Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
  • OpenCL 1.2 Support
  • Microsoft C++ AMP
  • DirectCompute 11
  • Double Precision Floating Point
  • AMD HD Media Accelerator
  • Universal Video Decoder (UVD)
    • H.264
    • VC-1
    • MPEG-2 (SD & HD)
    • MVC (Blu-ray 3D)
    • MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX/Xvid)
    • Adobe Flash
    • DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
    • Enhanced Video Quality features
    • Advanced post-processing and scaling
      • Deblocking
      • Denoising
      • Automatic deinterlacing
      • Mosquito noise reduction
      • Edge enhancement
      • 3:2 pulldown detection
• Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
• Adaptive anti-aliasing
• Morphological Anti-Aliasing (MLAA) 2.0
• DirectX® 9/10/11 Super-Sample Anti-Aliasing (SSAA)
• 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
• 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
• DisplayPort 1.2
• Max resolution: 4096×2160 per display
• Multi-Stream Transport
• 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
• High bit-rate audio
• Quad HD/4k/UHDTV video support
  • 3GHz HDMI 1.4a with Stereoscopic 3D Frame Packing Format, Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
  • Max resolution: 4096×2160
  • 2560x1600p60 Stereoscopic 3D
  • Quad HD/4k video support
• Dual-link DVI with HDCP
  • Max resolution: 2560×1600
• Automatic power management with low power idle states
  • Ultra-low idle power when system’s display is off
  • Efficient low power mode for desktop work
  • Secondary GPU in CrossFire technology configuration power down unneeded.

3. Open GL 4.2 Support
4. AMD Power Tune Technology with Boost: intelligent TDP management and dynamic clockspeed      /performance boost for gaming.
5. AMD HD3D Technology
6. AMD CrossFire™ multi-GPU for dual, triple and quad-GPU scaling
7. AMD Catalyst™ graphics and HD      video configuration software
8. AMD Eyefinity 2 Technology

9. AMD App Acceleration

10. Image quality      enhancement technology

11. Cutting-edge integrated display support

12. AMD PowerPlay™      power management technology

13.  AMD ZeroCore Power Technology

14. Integrated HD audio controller supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby® TrueHD and DTS      HD Master Audio™.

1. Software support for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8

1. III.           System Requirements:

• PCI Express® based PC is required with one X16 lane graphics slot available on the motherboard
• 750W (or greater) power supply with two 150W 8-pin Express power connector recommended
• 1000W power supply (or greater) with four 150W 8-pin connectors recommended for AMD CrossFire™ technology.
• Minimum 4GB of system memory
• 8GB (or more) of system memory recommended for AMD CrossFire™ technology
• Installation software requires CD-ROM drive
• DVD playback requires DVD drive and a DVD
• Blu-ray™ playback requires Blu-ray drive and a Blu-ray disc
• For an AMD CrossFire™ system, a second AMD Radeon™ HD 7990 GPU, an AMD CrossFire™ Ready motherboard and one AMD CrossFire™ Bridge Interconnect cable is required
• Use of 3 or more displays with AMD Eyefinity technology requires a DisplayPort-capable panel or an AMD Eyefinity-validated dongle. See http://www.amd.com/EyefinityDongles for a list of validated DisplayPort dongles.
• Windows Vista®, Windows® 7 or Windows® 8 operating system. 64-bit operating system highly recommended.

1. IV.          Operating System Support:

• Windows XP(32Bit/64Bit) ;
• Windows Vista(32Bit/64Bit)
• Windows Media Center Edition 2005
• Windows 7(32bit/64bit)
• Windows 8(32bit/64bit)

Here is AMD’s HD 7990 compared with the HD 7970 and the HD 7950.

There are also bundled games available with the Sapphire HD 7990
Happy Gaming!