Radeon HD 7990 in Crossfire pictured

The rides are many and long around AMD’s announced, delayed and then canceled Radeon HD 7990. Now the graphics card is up to date again, this time under the code name Malta. As before, this is a model with two graphics processors “Tahiti XT” on a single circuit board.

Frostbite developer Johan “repiAndersson at Swedish DICE now shows two Radeon HD 7990s in Crossfire, which provides a total of four graphics processors and 12 GB of GDDR5 memory in one and the same computer system. Unlike today’s unofficial Radeon HD 7990 from partner manufacturers, only two 8-pin PCI Express are used connectors, which means that the new graphics card will be more energy efficient than its predecessors.

Sources for SweClockers state that the Radeon HD 7990 “Malta” graphics card itself is complete and ready for production, but that AMD is forced to wait for new drivers that will solve the noted problems with uneven rendering times. The launch is expected to take place in connection with the Computex trade fair in early June.