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Today we are looking at the VTX3D HD7990 Graphics card, a flagship product created by partners after AMD failed to deliver an official dual GPU product this year. The VTX3D HD7990 in particular has generated a lot of interest as it is the least expensive HD7990 in the UK today available at £679.99 inc vat, significantly cheaper than both Club3D and Powercolor models. Dabs are also offering a £40 cashback voucher in December, bringing the total price to £640 inc vat.
The total cost may still be enough to bring grown men to their knees, but it is worth pointing out that the Nvidia GTX690 is still priced around the £850 point, or around £200 more than the VTX3D HD7990.
The VTX3D HD7990 is based around two Tahiti XT GPU's running at HD7970 speeds of 925mhz core and 1,375mhz memory. The company have added a red button to the card, which we will discuss later in the review.
As the image above shows, the VTX HD7990 graphics card is much larger than a HD7970. The cooling for the card is a custom triple slot design which covers the whole PCB.
| Product | AMD HD7970 ‘GHZ' Edition | AMD HD7950 |
AMD HD7870 | VTX3D HD7990 |
| Core Clock speed | 1050mhz | 800mhz | 1000mhz | 2 x 925 mhz |
| Transistors | 4.31 billion | 4.31 billion | 2.8 billion | 2 x 4.31 billion |
| Stream Processors | 2,048 | 1,792 | 1,280 | 2 x 2,048 |
| Texture Units | 128 | 112 | 80 | 2 x 128 |
| Texture Fillrate | 140.8 GT/s | 89.6 GT/s | 80 GT/s | 2 x 118.4 GT/s |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 | 32 | 2 x 32 |
| Pixel Fillrate | 33.6 GP/s | 25.6 GP/s | 32.0 GP/s | 2 x 29.6 GP/s |
| Z/Stencil | 128 | 128 | 128 | 2 x 128 |
| Memory Type | 3GB GDDR5 | 3GB GDDR5 | 2GB GDDR5 | 2 x 3GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Clock | 1,500mhz |
1,250mhz | 1,200mhz | 2 x 1,375mhz |
| Memory Data Rate | 6.0 GBps | 5.0 Gbps | 4.8 Gbps | 2 x 5.5 Gbps |
| Memory Bandwidth | 288 GB/s | 240 GB/s | 153.6 GB/s | 2 x 264 GB/s |
The two GPU's are allocated six 64 bit memory controllers which are connected to two 256MB GDDR5 modules each, bringing the total memory count to 6GB. Both GPU's have a memory bandwidth of 264GB/s. It is important to note that the HD7990 is not based around two of the latest HD7970 ‘GHZ' Edition cards, hence the more modest clock speeds of 925mhz. We will look at overclocking later in the review to see if we can push both GPU cores to 1,000mhz+.
dear lord, my epenis is so small right now 🙁
Seems like a great price point, even though it costs as much as my system im working on right now!
Bit of a bargain for the high end gamers with loads of disposable budget.
both this and the GTX690 are quite power efficient, considering!
Would have been nice to see two HD7870 Tahiti LE’s in CF, just to give a viewpoint of what could be achieved with around £400.
Good review otherwise, dream system material
Seems I got one of the five left 🙂 just in time ! thanks for review ! awesom!
what power supply will you be using Tom?
just ordered a 1000W Seasonic, as I needed to move up from my older 750W corsair.
Costly day, I hate this site sometimes 🙁
Sadly the framerates DON’T tell the whole story as Hardocp and Tech report have shown, crossfire might show higher framerates but real world game play is not as smooth as SLI.
Real world gameplay was perfectly smooth on the HD7990 with the latest AMD beta drivers – unless there is a Crossfire glitch with a specific game I didn’t test (which is possible as that can happen). I was playing games on it for a few days.
Wow, this thing is ridiculous, I need a new card lol
AweSoMe!!!