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The Next Gen Dual GPU Cards: Specs & Rumors

Rumors have been circulating that AMD would be launching the Radeon HD 7990 soon after NVIDIA launched their Kepler debut card, the GTX 680.
It has yet to happen, but let’s take a look at the rumored specs for the AMD HD 7990 “New Zealand”:
  • Two “Tahiti” GPU chips clocked at a lower than HD 7970 speed of 850 MHz, connected via an onboard CrossFire bridge chip.
  • 6 GBs of GDDR5 memory clocked at 1250 MHz (5 GHz effective), divided in two for 3 GB per GPU, on 2 x 384-bit buses.
  • 62 compute units with a total of 4096 (2 x 2048) Stream Processors and 256 (2 x 128) texture units.
  • TDP of  ~330 watts (max power use in watts).
  • DirectX 11.1 and OpenGL 4.2 hardware support.
  • PCI-Express 3.0 compliant.
NVIDIA plans to tackle the HD 7990 with the GeForce GTX 690, a similar dual GPU solution. Continue reading