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Sapphire love the pretty rendered ladies, and who can blame them. The box artwork on the HD6790 is very nice indeed. We aren't sure if she is going to kick ass or cut hair, but either is fine by us.
The bundle contains several power converter cables, a VGA adapter, literature on the Sapphire Select Club and a software disc.
The Sapphire HD6790 is built around a custom blue PCB with a modified, heatpipe cooler installed.
Above, the Sapphire HD6790 next to a reference HD6790 from AMD. We will look at cooling performance later in the review.
The HD6790 is CrossfireX capable, but only in a dual configuration.
The HD6790 requires two 6 pin power connectors. Some of you may remember that the HD5770 required only one.
Above left, the Sapphire HD6790 which has a dual DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort configuration. The reference board from AMD (above right) has two mini Displayport connectors instead of one full size. Both cards are Eyefinity capable.
Above, we can see the Sapphire HD6790 cooler (above left), compared against the reference AMD solution (right). The Sapphire cooler comprises three thick heatpipes which link into two sets of aluminum fins.
The Sapphire card is built on a very nice blue PCB while the AMD reference board is on black.
Both use the same Elpida W1032BABG DDR3 memory modules which we noted before on the HD6870.
At time of writing GPUz wasn't fully updated to support the HD6790.
Really good price for what you get, nice cooler too.
Well let’s be honest, it wouldn’t take much to outperform the 550 ti
Very nice card. Some very good work on AMD’s driver side.
Image quality looks amazing for a card at this price and performance is on par with the price sector.
It’s a shame that even with the much improved F@H Core 16 this card wont fold nearly as many PPD as a GTX550Ti. That kind of sours the whole deal to me.
Stellar Review Zardon. Nice addition of the overall scoring on the conclusions page.
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I really hate the way they change the naming conventions on these. why not call it the 6770 and be done with it?
Otherwise its impressive for the price and fascinating to see the CFX results showing it often close between GTX570 and GTX580, for a fraction of the price.
These are extremely impressive little boards, for the price I cant see it getting much better than this.
I am very impressed with the performance results, I hear some of them will be 110 quid too, bargain really.
That cooler is identical to the 5870 version, thats a nice way to do it. saves them development money on a new cooler too.
The biggest problem is that 5830 has dropped in price, XFX are selling their 5830 XXX for 85 inc vat.
How GTX550 Ti loss on Resident Evil 5?
HD 6790 – Max FPS 72
– Min FPS 57
Average – 64,5
GTX550 Ti – Max FPS 72
– Min FPS 60
Average – 66
To me this is a victory by a green team… Well, the result yet remains in favor to red team, with 7 victory vs 5 victory.
On games the battle is very difficult, 4 wins for each team. I was thinking, if is possible make this test in 1650×1050.
After all, 1650×1050 is the better choice for both cards. 2560×1600 and 1920×1200/1080 is more High-end resolution.
Maybe put more games DX11 e more titles. Just a idea. Anyway, good reviews! Thx for that.
We don’t post maximum frame rate figures Guiherme. The 72 fps is the average figure, not the maximum.
Thanks for the comments, glad you like the reviews.
Hey guys, why would anyone buy a GTX 580 (AU~$500) when you can get two 6790’s and crossfire them for less than AU$300? Is there something I’m missing?
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because most users doesn’t have an XFire capable board to do this and some doesn’t want to Xfire at all.