ASUS HD7790 Direct CU II OC Review

1. Introduction2. ASUS HD7790 Direct CU II OC3. ASUS HD7790 Direct CU II OC (Super High Res Gallery)4. Testing Methodology5. Synthetic: Unigine Heaven Benchmark6. Synthetic: Unigine Valley7. Synthetic: 3DMark Vantage8. Synthetic: 3DMark 119. Synthetic: 3DMark10. Gaming: Alien V Predator (DX11)11. Gaming: Total War Shogun 2 (DX11)12. Gaming: Dirt ShowDown (DX11)13. Gaming: Sleeping Dogs (DX11)14. Gaming: Max Payne 3 (DX11)15. Technical: Thermal Dynamics16. Technical: Acoustics Performance17. Technical: Overclocking18. Closing Thoughts19. View All Pages

Today we are looking to find out how the ASUS HD7790 Direct slots into the budget sector, against the Sapphire HD7790 OC, The XFX HD7770 Core, XFX HD7850 Core and Sparkle GTX 650 Ti Dragon Series.

Test System

Processor: Core i7 3960 X Extreme Edition @ 4.4ghz
Graphics Card: ASUS HD7790 Direct CU II OC (Catalyst 13.3 Beta)
Cooler: Antec 920 H20
Memory: 16GB G.Skill 2,400mhz @ 10-11-10-30
Motherboard: Asus Rampage IV Extreme
Power Supply: Enermax Platimax 1200W
Optical Drive: Asus BluRay Drive
Chassis: Lian Li PC-A77FR Aluminium Red Full Tower Case
Boot Drive: Patriot WildFire 120GB
Secondary Drive: 1TB Samsung
Monitors: Dell U3011 and Dell U2410 x 3.

Comparison cards:
Sapphire HD7790 OC (Catalyst 13.3 beta)
XFX HD7770 Core (Catalyst 13.3 beta)
XFX HD7850 Core (Catalyst 13.3 beta)
Sparkle GTX 650 Ti Dragon Series (Forceware 314.21)

Software:
Windows 7 Enterprise 64 bit
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Unigine Valley Benchmark
3DMark Vantage
3DMark 11
3DMark
Fraps Professional
Steam Client
FurMark

Games:
Alien V Predator
Sleeping Dogs
Total War: Shogun 2
Dirt Showdown
Max Payne 3

All the latest BIOS updates and drivers are used during testing. We perform generally under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru tests games across five closely matched runs and then average out the results to get an accurate median figure. If we use scripted benchmarks, they are mentioned on the relevant page.

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