AMD Radeon HD 7790: Affordable DX11 Gaming

Name: AMD Radeon HD 7790 Graphics Card
Brand: AMD

by Marco Chiappetta — Friday, March 22, 2013, 12:01 AM EDT

Aliens vs. Predator

DirectX 11 Gaming Performance

Alien vs. Predator

The Aliens vs. Predator benchmark makes use of the advanced tessellation, screen space ambient occlusion, and high-quality shadow features available with DirectX 11. In addition to enabling all of the aforementioned DirectX 11-related features offered by this benchmark, we also switched on 4X anti-aliasing along with 16X anisotropic filtering to more heavily tax the graphics cards being tested.

We saw more of the same with the Aliens vs. Predator benchmark, but the deltas separating the cards were somewhat different. The Radeon HD 7790 cards were still faster than the Radeon HD 7770 and GeForce GTX 650, and the Radeon HD 7850 and GeForce GTX 660 were still the fastest overall. The higher-end cards, however, finished well out in front of the 7790 cards, due to the 7850 and GTX 660 offering significantly more memory bandwidth.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, Gaming, graphics, GPU, 7790

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com