AMD Radeon HD 7990 Review: The Quiet Beast

Name: AMD Radeon HD 7990 Graphics Card
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, April 24, 2013, 12:00 AM EDT

Sleeping Dogs

DX11 Gaming Performance

Sleeping Dogs

Sleeping Dogs is an open-world game in which you play the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside. In the game, you have to fight your way up in the organization and take part in various criminal activities without blowing your cover. We tested Sleeping Dogs at two resolutions, with all in-game graphical options set to their maximum values with FXAA enabled.

The Radeon HD 7990 performed very well in the Sleeping Dogs benchmark, besting both the GeForce GTX 690 and GeForce GTX Titan at both resolutions. The only NVIDIA solution tested here that was faster was a pair of Titans running in SLI mode.

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Frame latency, however, was an issue in this game. Once again we see the Radeon HD 7990 with major peaks and valleys--some frames were displayed for 20ms+, while others were hardly on-screen at all. The GeForce GTX 690 was much more consistent in its output in this game.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Gaming, graphics, GPU, CrossFire, dx11, 7990

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com