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AMD HD7990 Malta Review


Valley Benchmark is a new GPU stress-testing tool from the developers of the very popular and highly acclaimed Heaven Benchmark. The forest-covered valley surrounded by vast mountains amazes with its scale from a bird’s-eye view and is extremely detailed down to every leaf and flower petal. This non-synthetic benchmark powered by the state-of-the art UNIGINE Engine showcases a comprehensive set of cutting-edge graphics technologies with a dynamic environment and fully interactive modes available to the end user.
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We used the settings above at both 1920×1080 and 2560×1600.
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The GTX690 wins both these tests and clearly AMD have a little more driver optimisation to sort out before they take top position in this benchmark.

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7 comments

  1. A lot of cash, but when factoring in the performance characteristics it seems good value compared to Nvidia parts.

  2. It just shows how far ahead the Titan is – its single GPU and not really that far behind the Malta card.

  3. Their partners ruined the launch by releasing a HD7990 many months ago. good improvement over their cards however but it seems so late to the game after Nvidia had the Titan out a while ago, and its single GPU.

    I dont buy any dual GPU cards as the driver profiles are so important to get the most from it. at least with the titan it will be 100% all the time.

  4. two titans in SLI would be much faster than this!

  5. @ Indloon – of course two titans would be faster, but they would also cost £1,700! you would need two of these malta cards at the same price for that price analogy to be effective.

  6. CF this and compare with the crash-happy-result-CF-unofficial-7990 test you reviewed before.

  7. I can’t help but not fall in love with this card every time I look at it, I see people talking about 2x titans in SLI are better, Obviously they would be better but the VRAM doesn’t stack that 12GB of power would = 6GB of effective Bandwidth on the cards sadly if you SLI….

    this 7990 has 6GB and is half the price… Also you know the 7970 has a better 3D graphics rating than the titan? oh you didn’t know that? did you know that 2x 7970 in CF has more Power than a 690? same thing Duel GPU (expensive one) vs 2x single GPU’s will Always lose.

    But its always in AMD’s favor since they don’t put 200-300% markups on all there cards thats why I buy AMD.

    G