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hey everyone and welcome back to Pauls hardware if you were looking for gratuitous close-ups of the fastest video card currently available well you've come to the right place today I'm gonna be taking a closer look at the AMD Radeon HD 7990 and now for a closer look at the card the first thing you probably notice is three sizable fans providing cooling for this graphics card around them you have a black and red plastic shroud then beneath the shroud and the three fans you have two massive aluminum finned heat sinks each of the heat sinks has four copper heat pipes that are extend from the respective GPU up through the fins and the heatsink to help provide some more heat dissipation and then you actually also have some copper fins up there at the top and those are providing some extra cooling for the power delivery as far as video outs you have four mini display ports and a single dual link DVI you can push up to five monitors from this single card there's also a bit of ventilation there at the back but primarily the fans are gonna actually pushing heat across the fins and then it's gonna be moving out through the open shroud so if you do plan to install this in an enclosed case make sure you have plenty of airflow because you're going to need to help evacuate some of that warmer air you have a PCI Express gen3 standard style connector down there at the bottom of course I got a crossfire X finger at the back and you can of course set two of these up for a quad crossfire X configuration and then you also have a very nice backplate that is on the back as well so that helps provide a little bit more protection for the PCB and give it a bit of a cleaner look overall I also have a black brace that you can't really see from these images but that's down between the the heatsink and the PCB that provides some extra rigidity to keep it straight when it's installed as far as specs we have well 2 Radeon HD 7970 gigahertz Edition GPUs integrated under this card it's really quite a feat of engineering that AMD has pulled off here both of these are going to maintain a 375 watt TDP you also have 2048 stream scissors in each of your Radeon HD 7970 gigahertz edition GPU 128 texture units x 232 wraps x 2 and then as far as the clock speeds you're actually only 50 megahertz below the full clock speed of the 7970 GE so 950 megahertz core clock and then you also get power toon boost that AMD has been introducing with the gigahertz edition so you can get a boost clock of up to 1,000 megahertz and that's compared to the standard at 7970 which is 1010 54 core clock and boost clock you do get 6 gigabytes of gddr5 memory that's gonna be running at 6 gigahertz as well so really really fast memory also included also with a very nice big interface to buy a 384 bit for each set of memory so you're essentially gonna have 3 gigabytes of memory for each GPU and that's gonna wrap it up for this video guys on a closing note I was checking as of the filming of this video if any of these video cards are actually currently available for sale and unfortunately the answer is well yes they are but no none are in stock I found a Dan board vendor partners who have created versions of this including gigabyte power color sapphire as well as XFX unfortunately every single one currently sold out I guess we'll have to blame the Bitcoin miners for that but anyway if you are interested in this video card keep your eyes peeled to newegg.com use the auto notify function that's probably going to be your best bet to actually find one but apart from that I guess you have to settle for gratuitous close-ups and videos like this one but if you did enjoy this video don't forget to hit that like button also don't forget to subscribe so you can see more of my videos as soon as I publish them again thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next video