AMD Unleashes the World’s Fastest Graphics Card

AMD announced the release of the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990, the world’s fastest graphics card, designed for gamers who want to take their PC gaming experience to the highest level. AMD Radeon HD 7990 is based on award-winning AMD Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture with AMD Eyefinity technology (allows consumers to run up to five simultaneous displays off of a single graphics card), and delivers unrivalled performance and world-class technology for playing the latest DirectX® 11 games in extreme resolutions and multi-monitor configurations. The new graphic card consists from two specially-screened AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series GPUs, with a clock speed of up to 1GHz and 6GB of GDDR5 running at 6.0Gbps for 576GB/s of memory bandwidth. The massive performance is cooled down by three ultra-quiet fans and according to AMD the fans are quieter than by the Titan or the GTX 690. For better imagination, the new AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 contains a combined 8.2 billion 28nm transistors.

Using PCI Express® 3.0 PLX Bridge and AMD CrossFire™ technology you can connect multiple graphic cards together and create 48 lanes (96GB/s) of bandwidth, which is pretty impressive.

Few important facts about AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series GPUs:

• Ready for Microsoft Windows® 8!
• With 6GB of GDDR5, two of the world’s most advanced GPUs, and an extraordinarily quiet cooler, every single facet of the AMD Radeon™ 7990 was perfectly engineered to enable an unrivalled DirectX® 11.1 gaming experience.
• Step beyond the confines of a single monitor and embrace the true potential of PC gaming with the ultra-high resolutions of AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology.
• Supreme performance with astonishing intelligence. That’s the DNA of the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990, featuring AMD PowerTune technology with Boost to enable automatic overclocking and higher frame rates.
• Designed for the ultra-efficient AMD ZeroCore Power technology, the AMD Radeon™ HD 7990 GPU shuts down its secondary at idle for unbelievably cool and quiet operation.

AMD took a great attention to the experience which can the user achieve with the new GPU series allowing to experience gamming in UltraHD up to resolution of 3840×2160px. This is four times the resolution of a normal 1080p display. A lot of pixels to move. Together with the AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology you don’t have to buy UltraHD monitors which are at the present time pretty expensive, but instead you can create multi-monitor configuration up to five simultaneous displays.

Some of the technical specifications:

• 950MHz Engine Clock (Up to 1.0GHz with Boost)4
• 6GB GDDR5 Memory
• 1500MHz Memory Clock (6.0 Gbps GDDR5)
• 288GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum)
• 8.2 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power
• 2.04 GFLOPs Double Precision compute power
• PCI Express 3.0 x16 bus interface
• Full DirectX® 11.1 compatibility
  • 9th generation programmable hardware tessellation units
  • Shader Model 5.0
  • DirectCompute 11
  • Accelerated multi-threading
  • HDR texture compression
  • Order-independent transparency
• OpenGL 4.2 support
  • Partially Resident Textures (PRT)
  • Ultra-high resolution texture streaming technology
• Cutting-edge integrated display support
  • DisplayPort 1.2 HBR2
    • Max resolution: 4096x2160 per display
    • Multi-Stream Transport
    • 21.6 Gbps bandwidth
    • High bit-rate audio
    • Quad HD/4k/UHDTV video support
  • HDMI® (With 4K, 3D, x.v.Color™ and Deep Color)
    • Max resolution: 4096x2160
    • 1080p60 Stereoscopic 3D
    • Quad HD/4k/UHDTV video support
  • Dual-link DVI with HDCP
  • Max resolution: 2560x1600
  • VGA
  • Max resolution: 2048x1536