Apologies, but hard to quote, did not want to take up the whole page, just wanted to say im doing this part based off what you said.
As for the Frame Latency your adding in to the Average FPS, the HD 7990 is once again in Beta and beating them in the average FPS part right off the bat. The Latency shows some latency, but once again, this is a new test A, its not noticeable by most gamers where as FPS is (Yes above 60 is not, but im saying its got some lasting effects shown because of how high it is on the games of now)
As for Heat, I still stand by what I said, its a better stock cooling solution and beats the 690 in under-stress tests on auto. At idle its a bit higher, but the 3 fan solution is nicer for a dual GPU card and its still a 2 slot card.
The overclocking we have not seen yet, this is again in BETA, the card is not out yet, its just open for reviewers to look at. When it releases, you will see what it can do, but if you compare for the the 7970 (GHz or regular) to a 680, the 7970's have clocked higher much easier and same with any version comparison.
As for the Devil or regular PowerColor cards, they are NON-REFERNCE designs which are exactly designed by companies and they are 3 slot configs (I have not looked at the tul or others but I have seen the HIS and Powercolor). But I still stand by the you get alot more bang for buck with that huge game bundle and the Card. Im not happy its still 1000 bucks, but so far, its looking more promising.
As for the Crossfire Support, the other guy above said so can SLI. What I was saying with the cards from amd 850 series and above (Meaning like a 7850) can support 4 way Crossfire. With Nvidia, the 90 series support quad SLI, the 80 series supports 4 card SLI, the 70 supports 3 sli, and everything else that support SLI can only do 2.
At the other guy, I did not noticed the 7770 even supported Crossfire, I normally dont look beyond a certain low point on cards.
As for the issues with latency for a year, yea once again, based on tests, the frame latency is not as good as nvidias, but once again ITS A NEW THING BEING TESTED FOR. My point being, this card is in BETA drivers, it does not use the standard AMD crossfire drivers, it uses a specific 7990 profile like the previous version from powercolor etc (Hence why you could not directly use the AMD website drivers, you had to use PowerColors). Frame Latency was something that was unheard of over a year ago, noone looked at that on tests and now its some huge deal why? Because nvidia went straight to fixing that more than AMD has and is on top of that, so now nvidia people are just saying "We auto win because we beat AMD in this new test" I like both companies, but these remarks are getting old because its not providing VALID points for people to look at when buying cards. Will a person if comparing these two cards notice this issue, probably not. Will later down the line on games that need more brute power noticed frame dropping, thats more likely and right now in BETA the HD 7990 is on toop of that. As the card is out for over a month, the card will only get better as new versions of catalyst comes out.
As for the lacking game profiles on some games, thats because many companies are paid off by nvidia to not allow AMD total access to working with their games. Games like planetside 2 suck on AMD machines because nvidia is trying to make it exclusive to them which isnt right. I hope we will get those, but I doubt AMD is ignoring those games on purpose and is trying their best to get good support for those games.
Also, I'm staying away from all the hardware power hogs. I don't want to support manufacturers who boast performance via ludicrous power consumption, like the card in this article. That's why I can't wait for Haswell to arrive...
