Review: Club3D Radeon HD 7990 6GB

by Tarinder Sandhu on 4 March 2013, 11:30 3.0

Tags: Club3D

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Testing Methodology

Club3D Radeon HD 7990 specs

GPU Comparisons

Graphics Card GPU Clock
(MHz)
Stream
Processors
Shader Clock
(MHz)
Memory Clock
(MHz)
Memory Bus
(bits)
Graphics Driver Approx Price
Club3D Radeon HD 7990 6GB 900/925 2,048 x 2 900/925 5,500 384 x 2 Catalyst 13.2 beta 6 £750+
AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz 3GB 1,000 (1,050) 2,048 1,000 (1,050) 6,000 384 Catalyst 13.2 beta 6 £350
AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB CrossFire 925 2,048 x 2 925 5,500 384 x 2 Catalyst 13.2 beta 6 £600
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN 6GB 837 (876) 2,688 837 (876) 6,008 384 GeForce 314.09 £850
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 4GB 915 (1,019) 3,072 915 (1,019) 6,008 256 x 2 GeForce 314.07 WHQL £750
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB 1,006 (1,058) 1,536 1,006 (1,058) 6,008 256 GeForce 314.07 WHQL £375

HEXUS High-End Test Bench

Processor Intel Core i7-3770K (3.50GHz, 8MB cache, quad-core)
CPU Cooler Intel reference E97378-001
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP4 TH
Memory 8GB G.Skill RipJaws (2x4GB) DDR3 @ 1,600MHz
Power Supply Corsair AX750W
Storage Device Samsung 830 Series 256GB SSD
Optical Drive Generic 24x DVD-RW
Chassis Corsair Graphite Series 600T
Monitor Dell 3007FPW and 3x BenQ EW2430
Operating system Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit, SP1)

HEXUS Super-High-End Benchmarking Suite

3D Benchmarks Mode and Resolutions Quality Settings
3DMark DX11 at 1,920x1,080 and 2,560x1,440 Fire Strike Standard and Extreme
Call of Duty: Black Ops II DX9 at 2,560x1,600 and 5,760x1,080 4xMSAA, High/Extra Preset
DiRT Showdown DX11 at 2,560x1,600 and 5,760x1,080 4xMSAA, Ultra Preset
Far Cry 3 DX11 at 2,560x1,600 and 5,760x1,080 2xMSAA, Ultra Preset
Just Cause 2 DX10 at 2,560x1,600 and 5,760x1,080 8xMSAA, High Preset
Sleeping Dogs DX11 at 2,560x1,600 and 5,760x1,080 4xMSAA, High Preset
LuxMark 2.0 OpenCL GPUs-only Sala (488,000+ triangles) and Room (2,000,000+ triangles)
General Benchmarks Description
Power Consumption To emulate real-world usage scenarios, we record mains power draw both when idle and while playing Far Cry 3
Temperature To emulate real-world usage scenarios, we record GPU core temperature both when idle and while playing Far Cry 3
Noise A PCE-318 meter is used to record noise levels when idle and while playing Far Cry 3

Testing notes

We tested the Club3D card in both BIOS configurations and found there to be a less than one per cent difference in benchmark scores once the core-boosting red button was depressed. One reason for this is that, at default, the core speed sometimes jumps up to 925MHz anyway.

The numbers on the following pages are derived from the card running at optimum settings - 925MHz core and 5,500MHz memory. You'll note that we use a minimum resolution of 2,560x1,600 for these ultra-enthusiast cards, rising to (three-screen) 5,760x1,080. We believe that anyone contemplating such a card will want to know how it stacks up against some lofty competition when really pushed to the limit.