dividebyzero
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The whole HD 7990 launch seems like a rush job tbh. There isn't a single review site that has had two cards to test quad-CFX, and even the mainstream sites have to queue up to await a card passed down the line. The card wont appear in retail until at least May 7th, yet AMD seemed in a hurry to release the card. Why?Now I know your going to go "your just picking on one thing that doesn't work" but you know, for fact, that loads of Crossfire profiles are missing for modern and older games, I mean, Assassins Creed is extremely popular, surely someone at AMD should check this kind of stuff?
What makes it a real head scratcher is that the card has issues with two of the game titles that the card is being bundled with
Far Cry 3:
and Bioshock InfiniteDoes the 7990's second GPU give it an advantage over the 7970? Not in Far Cry 3, not with that awful motion. I'd take a single 7970 over that anytime.The GTX 690, on the other hand, comes out looking pretty solid, definitely better than the GTX 680 or the 7970.
Neither of which are related to the microstutter/frame latency issue.I expect this stuttering issue could perhaps be fixed via a driver update. However, at present, the Radeon HD 7990 actually offers a worse experience in this game than the 7970. A single Tahiti GPU outperforms any of the GeForces, but adding a second GPU spoils the soup.
The whole Tech Report review is pretty interesting- well worth the read for the methodology alone.