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Bought a Sapphire 7990 but wanted a AMD 7990 instead

Hi, guys!

I have a "problem": I bought a Sapphire HD 7990, but I wanted a "pure" AMD instead. What do I do now?

The card arrives between today and next Tuesday (Apr/22nd) and I have one week do decide and, if it is the case, return the card to the store.

But it happens that I haven't find any store in Brazil that has the AMD 7990 for sale. They are all sold out.

So I ask you: What is the big difference between one from Sapphire and one from AMD? I understand that both use AMD chipsets, but are two different companies. Is Sapphire realible?

I don't intend to overclock, just play games such as Battefield, Crysis 3, Titanfall, etc.

With the money I spent, I can buy 2 video cards with 3GB and 512bits each...

So I ask you: What should I do??

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thank you!

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I'm pretty sure you can't get stock coolers for AMD cards unless it's a sample directly from AMD. Sapphire is decent, you have no need to worry.

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Hi, guys! I have a "problem": I bought a Sapphire HD 7990, but I wanted a "pure" AMD instead. What do I do now? The card arrives between today and next Tuesday (Apr/22nd) and I have one week do decide and, if it is the case, return the card to the store. But it happens that I haven't find any store in Brazil that has the AMD 7990 for sale. They are all sold out. So I ask you: What is the big difference between one from Sapphire and one from AMD? I understand that both use AMD chipsets, but are two different companies. Is Sapphire realible? I don't intend to overclock, just play games such as Battefield, Crysis 3, Titanfall, etc. With the money I spent, I can buy 2 video cards with 3GB and 512bits each... So I ask you: What should I do?? Any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you!

Don't worry!

Sapphire is one of the most trustworthy companies for AMD GPUs.

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The title confuses me. One would think the model mattered, but here we have someone worried over brand o.0

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Hi, guys! I have a "problem": I bought a Sapphire HD 7990, but I wanted a "pure" AMD instead. What do I do now? The card arrives between today and next Tuesday (Apr/22nd) and I have one week do decide and, if it is the case, return the card to the store. But it happens that I haven't find any store in Brazil that has the AMD 7990 for sale. They are all sold out. So I ask you: What is the big difference between one from Sapphire and one from AMD? I understand that both use AMD chipsets, but are two different companies. Is Sapphire realible? I don't intend to overclock, just play games such as Battefield, Crysis 3, Titanfall, etc. With the money I spent, I can buy 2 video cards with 3GB and 512bits each... So I ask you: What should I do?? Any help would be highly appreciated. Thank you!

The Sapphire 7990 is the AMD 7990.

AMD doesn't mass produce their cards for sale, they share the design to the AIB partners who make it for them.

 

Sapphire cards are pretty good as far as quality goes.

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AMD/NVidia reference shrouds and coolers are just that; reference design. Nothing special. Most of the time, if any are even seen, I believe they're press samples or used for stuff like that. The rest are just rebranded and sold under the main card manufacturer's name*, which can be Sapphire, Gigabyte, MSi, whatever. They're all still "AMD", since they're AMD's graphics card design and chips. The only thing that varies really is the cooler, the name/label, the shroud (covering over the PCB/cooler/etc.), the PCB (sometimes) and the layout of the components on the PCB.

Something that might make a difference is out-of-the-box overclocks and potential binning of certain video cards. See: MSi Gaming-series vs MSi Lightning series GPU's. Another might be Gigabyte Ghz Edition vs standard Windforce OC, or Sapphire Dual-X vs Toxic.

Sapphire is a decent manufacturer for AMD, you're fine.

*AMD doesn't own card fabs, they outsource to chip manufacturers and send that to Sapphire, MSi, Powercolor, etc. so they can build everything else. The basic card PCB and cooler + shroud design, whatever. Anything non-reference is up to those guys to make, which may or may not include a modified PCB layout.

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Thank you very much, guys!

 

Appreciate all the support.

 

I'll stick to Sapphire, then.

 

Cheers!

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