Topic: 5120 stream processors - Dual-GPU AMD Radeon HD 8990 (Read 9759 times)

That confused me for a second, LOL!

But yeah, owned in my personal gaming rig, didn't find out about mining till the crash from $32. I don't think GPU's accelerate anything except Photoshop when it comes to office apps.

Some people buy GPUs for purposes other than mining. Some people even buy LOTS of gpus for purposes other than mining. 

What means owned? You used those corosfire solutions for office aplications?

In regards to gaming...

NVIDIA uses a hardware based buffer to eliminate microstutter from SLI configurations. They have had this in place since the 8xx0 series Geforce cards. This is the reason that SLI feels so smooth when you're using them in SLI, TRI-SLI, and Quad-SLI configurations.

AMD allows the cards to go balls to the walls performance, and doesn't have any hardware to smooth out the random pauses that happen with texture loading, vertex loading, scene rendering, etc. that can add a hiccup in the pipeline, which is what microstuttering is. The Radeon Pro mod adds a software buffer to put the brakes on the cards and gives them a split second interval to get this done, and DRASTICALLY improves Crossfire performance. On an aside, TRI-Fire doesn't have a microstutter issue, or a drastically reduced microstutter issue, but crops up again in QUAD-Fire (along with abysmal QUAD-Fire performance.)

Also... dual card systems I've had and played on personally

8800 GTX 320 SLI (owned)
4850 Crossfire (owned)
5830 Crossfire (owned)
5850 Crossfire (owned)
GTX 480 TRI-SLI (played on)
6870 Crossfire (owned, sucked)
GTX 590 (Dual CHIP CARD SLI, played on)
7970 Crossfire (owned, F***ING awesome)

And Dual chip cards 5970, 6990, 7970x2(Powercolor, HIS), 9800GT2, GTX295, GTX590, GTX690 are all Crossfire/SLI cards on a single PCB.

It's relatively same issue as if you ran sli. But the game stuff would be an issue on developer side.
I always used nvidia; since getting in btc tried out radeon for gaming. Let's see ..nvidia took over the market with cooler graphics card with stock fan and almost no drivers issues.
on the other hand amd's getting better..

anyways my point is....nvidia would have to get ready for gtx790...

or even more..sooner mobile computing power will overcome desktop power..

Finally fixed that.  You referred to shaders which initially thru me off.  The translated website does list it as 5120 SP.

This is ridiculous speculation.

Look how far in advance the 7990 was rumored and we still don't have a reference version yet.  Afaik the Devil 13 is the only one currently available.

This is still annoying me. 

Radeonpro mod, it eliminates the microstutter issue.

Because they do. A 5970, 6990, and 7990 all are crossfired internally and behave as if they are crossfired dual gpu. They do NOT act like a single gpu card. If your game only supports a single GPU, your dual GPU card will only see a load on one core, not both.

Maybe he thinks that Dual GPU solutions function the same as crossfiring two single cards.

I don't see where you coming from with crossfire? I did not say anything about that.
Unless of course nvidia comes out with something as powerful. So it all depends.

Crossfire only works in full screen mode, and also is still plagued by microstutter unless you get at least THREE GPU's. If thats fine with you, then by all means go amd for gaming. I know I won't when I upgrade.

Omg, I need this....will trade my gtx670 ...
hm run spoutcraft on full settings...I wonder ^_^

Are you kidding, right?

That is one of the funniest posts I've read in a very long time 

My solution with my 2x6950, now that they would cost me money to mine, is to transfer one to my kids computer so they can play minecraft faster/higher rez
(and save the other for when I feel the urge to use vanitygen)
Though I guess Minecraft does require a little more GPU power than Minesweeper

I normally end up treating myself to a nice card for my gameing computer, After hours of looking through top titles to test the beast I normally end up playing minesweeper thinking well that was another smart purchase. 

Yeh, I remember when those were called 7970 X2s and were supposed to launch after the reference 7990. I wonder if the 8990 will end up being 8970 X2s launched next September?

Will it play Crysis?