AMD proudly announced today the Radeon™ HD 7990, the world’s fastest graphics card. It features dual AMD Radeon™ HD 7900 Series GPUs, 6GB of ultra-fast GDDR5 and native support for 5×1 AMD Eyefinity technology.

Image: techPowerUp!

The Radeon HD 7990 sports dual Tahiti chips with a total of 4096 Stream processors running at 1Ghz clock speed and 6GB of GDDR5 video memory clocked at 6Ghz. It measures about 12-inches long and uses a standard dual slot cooling solution with 3 fans for a quieter operation.

The Radeon HD 7990 also includes eight free games with the card: BioShock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Crysis 3 Hunter Edition, Far Cry 3, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution: about US$ 300 worth of downloadable software!

With Radeon HD 7990 introduction, AMD also presented a new Catalyst driver 13.5 beta 2, addressing some frame pacing issues found on Crossfire systems. The driver is expected to be released at second half of 2013 but already made a debut in a prototype form in Radeon HD 7990 launch reviews. It’s still a work in progress but results are quite promising.

Radeon HD 7990′s reviews on the web:

• Guru3D
• techPowerUp!
• Tom’s Hardware

The price tag is US$ 999 and it’s expected to become available in a couple of weeks.

A new Catalyst 13.4 driver is available to download, the driver is certified by Microsoft Windows Hardware Quality Labs (14/Apr/2013) and supports all AMD Radeon 5000/6000/7000 series cards, including the almighty AMD Radeon HD 7990.

Feature Highlights of AMD Catalyst™ 13.4

Includes support for the for the AMD Radeon HD 7990 Series and AMD Radeon HD 7790 Series

AMD Catalyst 13.4 includes support for the following OpenGL 4.3 features:

• GL_ARB_compute_shader o GL_ARB_multi_draw_indirect
• GL_ARB_shader_storage_buffer_object o GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays
• GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object o GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility
• GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location o GL_ARB_fragment_layer_viewport
• GL_ARB_invalidate_subdata o GL_ARB_program_interface_query
• GL_ARB_shader_image_size o GL_ARB_stencil_texturing
• GL_ARB_texture_buffer_range o GL_ARB_texture_query_levels
• GL_ARB_texture_storage_multisample

Performance Highlights of AMD Catalyst 13.4 (vs. AMD Catalyst 13.1)

Includes all of the performance improvements found in AMD Catalyst 13.3 Beta 3 on the AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series

• Significantly improves latency performance in Skyrim, Borderlands 2, Guild Wars 2, Tomb Raider and Hitman Absolution
• Resolves Texture flickering seen in DirectX9.0c applications.
• Resolves slight corruption seen in Tomb Raider with TressFX enabled for CrossFire and single GPU configurations
• Fixes graphical corruption on objects and textures in Call of Duty – Black Ops 2

For more information, see the following links:

Windows Vista/7/8/ 64-bit: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista64.aspx

Download 64-bit driver @ AMD

Windows Vista/7/8 32-bit: http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonaiw_vista32.aspx

Download 32-bit driver @ AMD

The video available on Youtube shows improved lightning and very welcome environment destruction with realistic physics, and of course, lots and lots of war drama and action!

Battlefield 4 can be pre-ordered at its official website, which by the way shows an AMD Gaming Evolved badge

A picture posted by @AMDRadeon shows AMD’s product manager for high-end discrete desktop graphics, Devon Nekechuk, holding a Radeon HD 7990 – really huge and sexy card!

There is no information yet about its specs but taking in consideration that some vendors like Asus and Powercolor already sell dual HD 7970 cards known as HD 7990, one can imagine that the “official” Radeon HD 7990 should be faster than the currently selling products. Just guessing.