AMD HD6790 Review
Introduction and Technical Specifications
Published: 5th April 2011 | Source: AMD | Price: £112 |
Introduction
Recently we've seen a flurry of ultra high-end graphics cards from both nVidia and AMD with the GTX590 and HD6990 respectively.
By inserting new models at the peak of the range the pricing has crept down slightly on the rest of the available cards meaning you can get a hell of a lot of performance for your pound. With the HD6850 available for around the £135 mark and the GTX550Ti around £115 the days of being unable to get more than an asthmatic wheeze out of a value card are long gone as both will provide decent performance for the outlay.
Appearing beneath the HD6850 in the AMD range the new kid on the Value block is the HD6790. In the same way that going big with high-end cards has diminishing returns, so the same is true at the lower end. Eventually continually cutting down performance to reach a budget will stop having a good card for the money and rather just leave you with something that might run Freecell.
So which camp does the HD6790 fall into? Is it a performance lunatic hiding under a reduced price tag, or one step too far?
Technical Specifications
The natural comparison for the HD6790 is the current Value card in the Radeon range, the HD6850. The HD6790 has 160 fewer Stream Processors, 8 fewer Texture Units and half the ROPs. This ends up giving us a slightly reduced Compute Performance and Texture Fillrate, but only around 55% of the Pixel Fillrate and Z/Stencil.
On paper at least it's not promising.
Most Recent Comments
I don't understand why Nvidia and AMD released the 550 and 6790 surely the time and effort would have been better spent making improved versions of the 6850 and 460.
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Architectualy speaking isn't this another 5 series card?Quote
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Originally Posted by marsey99
Architectualy speaking isn't this another 5 series card? |
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Originally Posted by chaotic_russ
no video review of this ? mind you , you are busy playing at a show TTL |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
No time to video, Im building rigs for the show and making videos of them. They are far more interesting...... |
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Originally Posted by wotevajjjj
they sure are ? cup of 1080p tea time today ? |
but aa 460 or 6850 is too close to its price :/Quote
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Originally Posted by Chaney
x2, but im american.. Bleh tea... Redbull does a body good though |
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Originally Posted by SieB
It's pretty much a overclocked 5770 with a different architecture, lower power consumption, less heat and noise. |
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Originally Posted by zeppas
Doesn't that make it exactly not a 5770, lol. |
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