The Radeon HD 7990, or 7970 X2, might come out a bit too late

Jun 11, 2012 14:22 GMT  ·  By

Even though there were several Radeon HD 7970 X2 graphics card sightings or rumors floating around Computex 2012, AMD's Radeon HD 7990 didn't actually come up in any conversation or report.

At this point, if we are reading right what 3DCenter.org posted, the dual-GPU HD 7990 might not appear at all, not in that form anyhow.

AMD probably doesn't have a problem coming up with a board design, but it might not manage to make a product capable of matching, or besting, NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 690 in terms of performance-per-watt. Not in good time at any rate.

As such, it might leave the matter in the hands of OEMs that have already exposed HD 7970 X2 (HIS, PowerColor, etc.)

And here is the one problem left: the ETA is August (2012), which could be a bit too late, especially after the delays so far suffered by the project.