14 DAY TRIAL // AMD’s first “Graphics Core Next” (GCN) generation of cards have proved to be very powerful and highly overclockable. Power Color is reportedly taking advantage of AMD’s superior architecture and is preparing to introduce a huge dual-GPU monster card using two fully active “Tahiti” HD Radeon 7970 GPUs.
The CPU and GPU design company is currently working on its own dual-GPU design using the “Tahiti” graphics processing units that will be likely called Radeon HD 7990.
Because the “Tahiti” architecture has proven to be so powerful and highly overclockable, AMD seems to have given its partner a free pass to develop custom designs with pre-overclocked GPUs.
Traditional ATi and AMD video card manufacturing partner PowerColor has apparently decided that the company’s next generation cooling system called Vortex III would be best demonstrated on a custom Radeon HD 7970 x2 dual-GPU video card.
The Power Color Radeon HD 7970 x2 Devil 13 dual-GPU video card comes with a total of 6 gigabytes of dedicated DDR5 video memory. That means each GPU gets to play with 3 GB or DDR5 memory on its own 384-Bit BUS.
The cards seem to be lacking an external CrossFire connector and this means that a dual-card configuration with Quad-CrossFire is not likely possible.
While this might be most unfortunate for gaming enthusiasts, the presence of a special button on the I/O shield leads us to believe there’s an automatic overclocking option on the card, or a BIOS recovery/reset to restore the card to working order.
As we’ve reported earlier, the card is powered by up to 525 watts of electrical energy through three 8-pin power connectors, plus the PCI-Express slot power.
