amd's dual gpu coming in 2h july, 12gb vram, renamed

about a month or two ago i brought to you news of the demise of the amd controller hd 7990 and the start of the 7970x2. today i got more on it the hd 7970x2 has become the 7990 and has taken voer the canned dual-gpu's place in the lineup. card makers already have samples ready and will likely be ready for a paper and store launch in the 2nd half of july.

we also now no amd's secret weapon.. ram marketing theoretically an amd card maker could make a limited edition with TWELVE Gigabytes OF VRAM yes you heard me 12gb with base units starting off near the 6gb area.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/amd-radeon-hd-7990-debuts-as-a-very-limited-edition-in-july-/16567.html

That can't be correct. 2 GPUs with 3gb each still = 3gb.

That can't be correct. 2 GPUs with 3gb each still = 3gb.

Maneil99

[QUOTE="Maneil99"]

That can't be correct. 2 GPUs with 3gb each still = 3gb.

Blicen

Yea im still talking about that and the base. The Website is clearly ametuer

That can't be correct. 2 GPUs with 3gb each still = 3gb.

Maneil99

You are now aware that whether the card treats the 2x3GB as 3GB or not there is still actually 6GB there and it is technically accurate to call it as such also it

FOLLOWS HOW THEY MEASURE VRAM ON ALL DOUBLE GPU CARDS SINCE THE STARTED MAKING THEM

[QUOTE="Maneil99"]

That can't be correct. 2 GPUs with 3gb each still = 3gb.

GummiRaccoon

You are now aware that whether the card treats the 2x3GB as 3GB or not there is still actually 6GB there and it is technically accurate to call it as such also it

FOLLOWS HOW THEY MEASURE VRAM ON ALL DOUBLE GPU CARDS SINCE THE STARTED MAKING THEM

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

[QUOTE="Maneil99"]

That can't be correct. 2 GPUs with 3gb each still = 3gb.

ionusX

You are now aware that whether the card treats the 2x3GB as 3GB or not there is still actually 6GB there and it is technically accurate to call it as such also it

FOLLOWS HOW THEY MEASURE VRAM ON ALL DOUBLE GPU CARDS SINCE THE STARTED MAKING THEM

hahah you are so illogical. Nobody calls dual gpu cards by the total ram in both cards, the card only has 3/6gb avalible to use, shows how little morons on this site know. Go on tomshardware forums and see how long you last with your idiotic logic there.

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

You are now aware that whether the card treats the 2x3GB as 3GB or not there is still actually 6GB there and it is technically accurate to call it as such also it

FOLLOWS HOW THEY MEASURE VRAM ON ALL DOUBLE GPU CARDS SINCE THE STARTED MAKING THEM

Maneil99

hahah you are so illogical. Nobody calls dual gpu cards by the total ram in both cards, the card only has 3/6gb avalible to use, shows how little morons on this site know. Go on tomshardware forums and see how long you last with your idiotic logic there.

uses toms hardware

assumes they know everything about computers

XD

whoa....lol I'm actually now surprised by the amount of nubs myself... Dual chip cards still use same amount as ram of the single card counterpart, 690 only uses 2gb of ram regardless of the 4gb you see on the box. Why do you think xfire and sli get the same results as the dual chip? Sheesh...

whoa....lol I'm actually now surprised by the amount of nubs myself... Dual chip cards still use same amount as ram of the single card counterpart, 690 only uses 2gb of ram regardless of the 4gb you see on the box. Why do you think xfire and sli get the same results as the dual chip? Sheesh...

dabigsiebowski

[QUOTE="dabigsiebowski"]

whoa....lol I'm actually now surprised by the amount of nubs myself... Dual chip cards still use same amount as ram of the single card counterpart, 690 only uses 2gb of ram regardless of the 4gb you see on the box. Why do you think xfire and sli get the same results as the dual chip? Sheesh...

C_Rule

[QUOTE="dabigsiebowski"]

whoa....lol I'm actually now surprised by the amount of nubs myself... Dual chip cards still use same amount as ram of the single card counterpart, 690 only uses 2gb of ram regardless of the 4gb you see on the box. Why do you think xfire and sli get the same results as the dual chip? Sheesh...

C_Rule

Nom

Just like Im sure that news outlet knows what their saying. 12gb total as the box would likely say, 6gb each/usable. All those dual gpu always market off their cards as total ram to sell just like 600hz for plasma.

@other poster if you like tomshardware so much than stay there. Cause I guess theres no nubs or clowns there *sarcasm*.

[QUOTE="C_Rule"][QUOTE="dabigsiebowski"]

whoa....lol I'm actually now surprised by the amount of nubs myself... Dual chip cards still use same amount as ram of the single card counterpart, 690 only uses 2gb of ram regardless of the 4gb you see on the box. Why do you think xfire and sli get the same results as the dual chip? Sheesh...

Bikouchu35

Nom

Just like Im sure that news outlet knows what their saying. 12gb total as the box would likely say, 6gb each/usable. All those dual gpu always market off their cards as total ram to sell just like 600hz for plasma.

@other poster if you like tomshardware so much than stay there. Cause I guess theres no nubs or clowns there *sarcasm*.

That can't be correct. 2 GPUs with 3gb each still = 3gb.

Maneil99

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

You are now aware that whether the card treats the 2x3GB as 3GB or not there is still actually 6GB there and it is technically accurate to call it as such also it

FOLLOWS HOW THEY MEASURE VRAM ON ALL DOUBLE GPU CARDS SINCE THE STARTED MAKING THEM

Maneil99

hahah you are so illogical. Nobody calls dual gpu cards by the total ram in both cards, the card only has 3/6gb avalible to use, shows how little morons on this site know. Go on tomshardware forums and see how long you last with your idiotic logic there.

AMD's OpenCL 1.2 says Hi. The little moron is you. The programmer can partition of the algorithm to multiple parallel compute kernels.

Large VRAM is mainly for server/workstation GpGPU compute devices. Duplicated textures was due to the compute model employed by the traditional raster titles.

From AMD's 6990 slide, the two 6970s's 2GB forms 4GB.

AMD focuses on GpGPU for GCN

AMD GCN's X86-64 changes the way the GPU access the main memory address i.e. AMD GCN is like another X86-64 CPU(without X86 legacy) sitting on the PCI-E bus.

[QUOTE="Maneil99"]

[QUOTE="ionusX"] indeed maneil consider yourself edumacated

ronvalencia

hahah you are so illogical. Nobody calls dual gpu cards by the total ram in both cards, the card only has 3/6gb avalible to use, shows how little morons on this site know. Go on tomshardware forums and see how long you last with your idiotic logic there.

AMD's OpenCL 1.2 says Hi. The little moron is you. The programmer can partition of the algorithm to multiple parallel compute kernels.

Large VRAM is mainly for server/workstation GpGPU compute devices. Duplicated textures was due to the compute model employed by the traditional raster titles.

From AMD's 6990 slide, the two 6970s's 2GB forms 4GB.

AMD focuses on GpGPU for GCN

AMD GCN's X86-64 changes the way the GPU access the main memory address i.e. AMD GCN is like another X86-64 CPU(without X86 legacy) sitting on the PCI-E bus.

Damn, and people said 4GB was overkill...

So 2x6GB? That's pretty beast. Great for anyone who wants to run stupidly high resolutions.C_Rule

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="GummiRaccoon"]

You are now aware that whether the card treats the 2x3GB as 3GB or not there is still actually 6GB there and it is technically accurate to call it as such also it

FOLLOWS HOW THEY MEASURE VRAM ON ALL DOUBLE GPU CARDS SINCE THE STARTED MAKING THEM

Maneil99

hahah you are so illogical. Nobody calls dual gpu cards by the total ram in both cards, the card only has 3/6gb avalible to use, shows how little morons on this site know. Go on tomshardware forums and see how long you last with your idiotic logic there.

98% of us here are aware that you only get the effective memory buffer of one of the GPUs. However, from what I've seen cards like this are usually still labeled with the total amount of VRAM. That goes back to the 7950 gx2, etc.. Even your beloved Tom's Hardware refers to dual-GPU cards this way.

This thread went to sh!t fast.

Anyways, that's cool - I'll be looking out for the 7990. I hope it gets priced more reasonably than the 690.

I agree with the sentiment but dude you always miss the point.red12355

I covered all bases i.e. AMD's VRAM size with dual GPU on a single card context and AMD's consumer electronics(CE) GpGPU setup.

I'm running a GTX 680 2GB at 2560x1440.... I really don't know what the f*** you would need with 12GB, that would be more useful in a workstation GPU.

Grey_Eyed_Elf

AMD Eyefinity

@5760 X 1080p

@9600 x 1080p http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq6xXj0OGSU&feature=related

[QUOTE="C_Rule"]So 2x6GB? That's pretty beast. Great for anyone who wants to run stupidly high resolutions.savagetwinkie

buying this will be a worse idea than a 3870x2
you get shafted up the ass by drivers
for instance, ati said they would release lunix drivers for it
never did

i have one ; /

also random other problems

buying this will be a worse idea than a 3870x2
you get shafted up the ass by drivers
for instance, ati said they would release lunix drivers for it
never did

i have one ; /

also random other problems

JigglyWiggly_

If you're going to get that amount of VRAM, I'm assuming you'll need to buy 2 or more monitors as well to justify the purchase of the card itself.

Also, whoever first mentioned Tom's Hardware needs to find a better tech hardware site.

[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]

buying this will be a worse idea than a 3870x2
you get shafted up the ass by drivers
for instance, ati said they would release lunix drivers for it
never did

i have one ; /

also random other problems

ionusX

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]

buying this will be a worse idea than a 3870x2
you get shafted up the ass by drivers
for instance, ati said they would release lunix drivers for it
never did

i have one ; /

also random other problems

JigglyWiggly_

Jigga-what???

If you're going to get that amount of VRAM, I'm assuming you'll need to buy 2 or more monitors as well to justify the purchase of the card itself.

Also, whoever first mentioned Tom's Hardware needs to find a better tech hardware site.

Bird_Killer

Agreed

seems like amd is in try-hard modejaycouvera

It's just an uncertificated FireGL/FireStream card. It's an excellent card for very large voxel data rendering.

I'm running a GTX 680 2GB at 2560x1440.... I really don't know what the f*** you would need with 12GB, that would be more useful in a workstation GPU.Grey_Eyed_Elf

There's a GTX 680 with 4 GB e.g Palit GeForce GTX 680 4GB Jetstream. PC is not just a gaming machine.

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"]

buying this will be a worse idea than a 3870x2
you get shafted up the ass by drivers
for instance, ati said they would release lunix drivers for it
never did

i have one ; /

also random other problems

JigglyWiggly_

[QUOTE="Grey_Eyed_Elf"]I'm running a GTX 680 2GB at 2560x1440.... I really don't know what the f*** you would need with 12GB, that would be more useful in a workstation GPU.ronvalencia

There's a GTX 680 with 4 GB e.g Palit GeForce GTX 680 4GB Jetstream. PC is not just a gaming machine.

[QUOTE="JigglyWiggly_"][QUOTE="ionusX"] u mean like how nvidia said they would release gt520 linux drivers in china? and never have XD and it ended up costing them a major contract with the chinese governmentElann2008

God damn I need myself a 6GB card. BF3 on ultra 1080p uses 1.9GB+ VRAM. :oC_Rule

seems like amd is in try-hard modejaycouvera

God damn I need myself a 6GB card. BF3 on ultra 1080p uses 1.9GB+ VRAM. :oC_Rule

[QUOTE="C_Rule"]God damn I need myself a 6GB card. BF3 on ultra 1080p uses 1.9GB+ VRAM. :ogodzillavskong

[QUOTE="godzillavskong"][QUOTE="C_Rule"]God damn I need myself a 6GB card. BF3 on ultra 1080p uses 1.9GB+ VRAM. :okraken2109

[QUOTE="kraken2109"][QUOTE="godzillavskong"] Wow! I plan on upgrading here shortly . I have 2 IceQ6870s in crossfire, which only have 1gb of vram each. I'd like to go with a 6970 2gb version, then eventually crossfire them, or just go all out and get a 7xxx series with 3gb. I'm not sure I'll be getting one of these 6gb or higher cards, probably a little outta my price range. Unless a find a pot of gold, or get raped by Kobe Bryant.lolmitu123

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="kraken2109"] 2 6870s should last a long time, you'd have to spend a very large amount to get a significant upgrade.kraken2109

[QUOTE="kraken2109"][QUOTE="godzillavskong"] Wow! I plan on upgrading here shortly . I have 2 IceQ6870s in crossfire, which only have 1gb of vram each. I'd like to go with a 6970 2gb version, then eventually crossfire them, or just go all out and get a 7xxx series with 3gb. I'm not sure I'll be getting one of these 6gb or higher cards, probably a little outta my price range. Unless a find a pot of gold, or get raped by Kobe Bryant.lolmitu123