AMD Radeon HD 7790 review roundup: what to expect from a $149 gaming card

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img alt="AMD Radeon HD 7790 review roundup what to expect from a $149 gaming card" data-src-height="414" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/radeon-hd-7970-card-lead.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Mainstream gaming is all about 1080p. Monitors may be getting cheaper, making higher resolutions and multi-display setups ever more feasible, but Full HD is still sufficient for the average buyer. AMD knows it, and that's why this morning's announcement of the Radeon HD 7790 came with a straightforward promise: the ability to play the latest games at 1080p with high detail settings for a maximum outlay of $149. Such claims can't be waved around without being tested, and indeed <em>The Tech Report</em>, <em>HotHardware</em>, <em>Bit.tech </em>and other sites have just returned their verdicts. Read on for our review roundup.</div><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="AMD Radeon HD 7790 review roundup what to expect from a $149 gaming card" data-src-height="346" data-src-width="619" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/amd7790-details.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Let's start with the upsides: pretty much all the sites listed here found that the Radeon HD 7790 met their expectations, providing a sensible compromise between the cheaper 7770 and the more expensive 7850 and generally staying toe-to-toe with NVIDIA's similarly priced GTX 650 Ti. <em>The Tech Report</em> found that the card coped admirably with Lara Croft's hair at 1080p with High details settings, far outpacing the 7770 with an average frame rate of 54 fps and also more consistent smoothness. Titles like <em>Skyrim</em>, <em>Battlefield 3</em> and<em> The Witcher 2</em> were hiccup-free at around 40 fps. <em>HotHardware</em> reported that the 7790-based cards it tested were "very quiet" and ran cool compared to other options -- in fact, it ran even cooler under load than the 7770.</div><div class="more-info" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> And now the bad news: some games and resolutions are simply beyond the capacity of graphics cards at this price point. According to <em>Bit.tech</em>, <em>Crysis 3</em> runs at just 21fps at 1080p with Very High detail settings, and the only consolation is that a 1GB GTX 650 Ti can't play the game either. Don't expect to go beyond 1080p either: <em>HotHardware</em> found that <em>Hitman: Absolution</em> and <em>Sleeping Dogs</em> both fell far below 30fps at 1,920 x 1,200, for example. Meanwhile, all these games -- even <em>Crysis 3</em> at Medium settings -- ran smoothly on the Radeon HD 7850, which leads us to think we'd probably still stretch to that GPU if it popped up at a good price.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> In any case, check out the full reviews and charts before making your mind up:</div></div>

AMD Radeon HD 7790 review roundup: what to expect from a $149 gaming card

Mainstream gaming is all about 1080p. Monitors may be getting cheaper, making higher resolutions and multi-display setups ever more feasi...

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AMD intros Radeon HD 7790 graphics card for $149, promises cooler and quieter 1080p gaming

<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;" trbidi="on"><div class="image-container" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="AMD intros Radeon HD 7790 graphics card for $149, promises cooler and quieter 1080p gaming" data-src-height="340" data-src-width="620" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/radeonhd7790-lead.jpg" /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> We were half expecting AMD's next graphics card to be some sort of supercomputing colossus, given all the buzz around NVIDIA's GTX Titan. As it turns out, though, we're looking at something more subtle and just <em>slightly</em> more affordable: the new Radeon HD 7790. It slots into a cosy niche between the 7770 and the 7850, targeting gamers who want a good helping of 28nm silicon and potential for CrossFire expansion but who don't want to stretch beyond $149. Efficiency tweaks allow the 7790 to offer almost 50 percent more processing power than the 7770 while only demanding a smidgen of extra wattage (85 W instead of 80 W), which bodes well for cooling and decibels. Relative to the 7850, which can now be had for under $200, you'd be getting a card with half the power consumption, half the memory (1GB GDDR5), half the memory bandwidth (128-bit) and around 30 percent less processing power.</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> Compare it to the closest rival from NVIDIA, the GTX 650 Ti, which currently fetches upwards of $140, and AMD claims the Radeon HD 7790 offers an average 20 percent advantage in frame rates at 1080p -- enough that you shouldn't need to worry about games like <em>Tomb Raider</em> or <em>Hitman: Absolution</em> at that resolution. Check out the slide deck for further details and official frame-rate charts, and expect to see the card reach retailers starting April 2nd.</div><div class="post-gallery" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><h3 class="title"><strong>AMD Radeon HD 7790 slide deck</strong></h3></div><div class="post-gallery" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/7790-1_95x95.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/7790-2_95x95.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/7790-3_95x95.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/7790-4_95x95.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/7790-5_95x95.jpg" /> <img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/03/7790-6_95x95.jpg" /> </div></div>

AMD intros Radeon HD 7790 graphics card for $149, promises cooler and quieter 1080p gaming

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