AMD Radeon HD 7990 Blazes Onto the Gaming Scene

It's springtime, and after you take notice of the cicada brood and cherry blossoms in the real world, AMD would like you to get back into your den and see the detail and smooth animation in the virtual world.

Today, AMD released details about its new flagship graphics card, the AMD Radeon HD 7990. It's touted as the world's fastest graphics card, and is designed for the PC gamer who wants to play high-end 3D games at the highest resolution on a massive high-resolution panel or spanning multiple displays.

The AMD Radeon HD 7990 is built on the platform formerly known as Malta, and it is a dual-socket, dual-GPU card with 8.6 billion transistors, 4096 stream processors, and 8.2 TeraFLOPs of compute power. The Radeon HD 7990 comes with 6GB of GDDR5 graphics memory (3GB per GPU), and can support up to five simultaneous monitors with AMD's Eyefinity technology. It can do this via a single dual-link DVI port and four mini DisplayPorts. AMD's version of the card will come with a massive card-spanning heatsink and three cooling fans. AMD claims that its card is quieter than the Nvidia GeForce Titan and GeForce GTX 690 while running benchmark tests. The individual GPUs can also enter a power saving mode, helping keep your PC quiet and cool.

The raison d'être for an enthusiast gaming board is to play games, and the Radeon HD 7990 comes bundled with eight high-profile titles. All AMD Radeon HD 7990 buyers will get copies of BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Crysis 3, Far Cry 3, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs and Deus Ex Human Revolution. In particular, AMD claims that you will be able to play Crysis 3 and Tomb Raider at 4k resolution (3,840 by 2,160) with all the eye candy turned on.

The AMD Radeon HD 7990 will also be available from third party partners like Asus, Sapphire, and XFX. AMD's Radeon HD 7990 SEP bundle has a $999 MSRP, and will be available after Wednesday, May 8th, 2013.