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XFX box artwork is always brilliant, and this one is a subtle, and slightly futuristic play on the dual fan configuration of the card.
Inside, the bundle is spartan, with no power or video converters. There is plenty of literature on XFX products including their power supply range. There is also a ‘Do Not Disturb' sign for a door handle.
The XFX HD6790 is built around a custom, black PCB design, with a modified heatpipe cooler incorporated. We have used similar dual fan heatpipe coolers from XFX before, and they are exceptionally good. We have high hopes this particular model will be just as impressive.
The HD6790 is CrossfireX capable, only in dual configurations. You need to aim into a higher range if you want 3, or even 4 way CrossfireX.
The HD6790 requires two 6 pin PCI E power connectors to operate. The last generation HD5770 only needed one.
The XFX HD6790 board follows the AMD reference design, with two mini DisplayPort connectors, HDMI and dual DVI output configuration. The Sapphire card we looked at recently opted for full sized connectors.
This particular board uses a tri-heat pipe, direct contact cooling method. The heatpipes are very nicely engineered and they split the heat transfer up into two rows of aluminum fins.
The card uses quality Hynix H5GQ1H24afr memory.
An overview of the hardware in GPUz. This is a reference clocked card operating at 840mhz core, and 1050mhz (4200mhz effective) from the 1GB of GDDR5 memory. This is connected via a 256 bit memory interface.
Thats a nice looking card for the price. like the cooler a lot. dual fans on a card with a modest power delivery is always going to work well.
Interesting to see they have opted for direct contact heatpipes. seems to work a treat.
Might be a better deal than the £105 HD5850 from sapphire, close call though.
I still think Sapphire have crapped on the 6 series mid range party with the HD5850 at that price, its a better card overall, and costs less. unless you want multiple screens or something, id still opt for it at the reduced price.
Very nice. THese are the cards people buy, not HD6990’s. i could insure my car for a year for that.
Good card, but, and its a BIG BIG but. The HD5850 which sapphire brought out again with awesome cooler.
Surely this is THE buy of the moment? or am I missing something
Big fan of dual fan cards myself, bought an ASUS Direct CU recently and its so much quieter than my last card
CFx is really good, but for £230 you could almost get a 6970.
Great looking board for the price, its 15 euros cheaper than sapphires here.
Dual fan coolers always work well and thankfully the companies know not to cut costs by using crappy fans that make a lot of noise. I think this one is a winner for XFX. price is good too, I was expecting it to be 130.
I want to aim higher, but im having problems getting the funds I need. this might do me and I can upgrade with another later in the year.
Just remember that when you are moving to CrossfireX that it is very driver based. if a new game is out it is a good chance you will have it beaten by the time AMD sort out the profile. it sucks from that point of view.