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AMD's newly-announced Radeon HD 7790 guns for the budget 1080p gaming crown |
March 22, 2013
Last month's release of Nvidia's Titan graphics card—the most powerful consumer GPU ever announced—may have inspired uncontrollable drooling among the enthusiast crowd, but at a cool $1000, the card simply isn't priced to move. AMD's latest release takes a different tack. Today, the company announced the Radeon HD 7790 series graphics card, a $150 mid-range GPU designed to bring better 1080p gaming to the masses.
The Radeon HD 7790 fills a hole between the Radeon 7770 GHz Edition, which is typically priced between $100 and $110, and the $180 and up Radeon 7850. At $150, the Radeon HD 7790 directly competes against Nvidia's GeForce GTX 650 Ti, which has thus far been sitting uncontested at that particular price point.
Most of AMD's press materials for the Radeon HD 7790 unsurprisingly compare its 1080p gaming performance against Nvidia's counterpart, with AMD's card claiming frame rate victories to the tune of 8 to 32 percent across a slew of games—and a whopping 67 percent frame rate lead over the Nvidia GTX 650 Ti in DiRT Showdown. (That game heavily favors AMD graphics cards, to be fair.) AMD claims the Radeon HD 7790 performs delivers "an average performance advantage of up to 20 percent over the GTX 650 Ti."
AMDAMD's benchmarks compare the Radeon 7790 against the Nvidia GTX 650 Ti at 1080p resolution.
The Radeon HD 7790 offers full DirectX 11.1 support and works just fine with EyeFinity multi-monitor setups, though frame rates will obviously drop if you're rocking several displays. Fortunately, AMD loaded the Radeon HD 7790 with CrossfireX support just in case you want a graphical boost down the line. The GTX 650 Ti, on the other hand, doesn't support multi-card solutions.
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