AMD 8990m ?

Has anyone seen any specs on what that card might have over the 7990m and if it would be worth an upgrade from the 7990m on the M17xR4? (When it comes out)

 

As far as I know the 7990m does not exist. If you mean the 7970m vs the 8970m, this 8xxx generation will be mostly 7xxx rebadges. There won't be a die shrink I think so the 8970m will likely not be a whole lot faster than the 7970m.

 

I would have liked to see a 7990M. My 7970M doesn't ever get past the low 70C's, so there's a lot of thermal headroom there.

 

If this leak is true, 8970m will offer performance somwhere between 20%-40% over 7970m.
I for one can't wait to find out.

Specs as reported in the link are 1000Mhz core / 1900Mhz memory, increased shader count (don't remember how many, i think 1536), and 3GB of ram.

 

Depending on the price of the upgrade (buying the new card) that might be interesting for me to.

 

AMD would have to really improve their silicon to pull off those clocks. Temps would will be difficult to keep under control on mobile platforms. It would be cool if they could pull it off, but I don't see myself going back to AMD unless Nvidia really screws up the 780m.

 

I hope the 780m will be compatible with R3. I decided to skip upgrading to the 680m, since the 580m is still pretty strong and doesn't warrant $500 for just a 50% increase.

 

...make that like $700 for the 680m, according to a couple of searching

 

Yeah, it's expensive, but I'd rather upgrade when there's been a die shrink than when there hasn't. That's when the you get the biggest improvement for your dollar. I see your point though.

 

Yeah, I guess the 780m will still be Kepler huh? If I had the spare cash I would probably just jump for the 680m right now. The damn thing has more than 3 times the 580m's Cuda cores- which would rock for all the video editing I do!

 

I haven't received any info on that yet. It would be awesome to see some new GFX Cards but the 7970 was recently released and I don't think we will see any changes yet.

 

depends on your video editing application's. most of my high end software has gone OpenCL where a Kepler card is a massive hinderance. the last of mine to even support CUDA is Adobe Premier which is suspected to dump CUDA support for OpenCL as it did in the rest of CS6's applications, in CS7.

all I have read on the new 8000 series is that ALL the models will be based off of the GCN architecture. so there should not be that many rebadges actually.

 

Is yours overclocked? I'm wondering if I should overclock mine, since I use a coolermaster u3. Max my gpu gets is 65C when gaming. Are there any substantial gains when overclocking to the safe threshold level?