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

Batman: Arkham City

DirectX Gaming Performance

Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City is a sequel to 2009’s Game of the Year-winning Batman: Arkham Asylum. This recently released sequel, however, lives up to and even surpasses the original in many ways. The story takes place 18 months after the original game. Quincy Sharp, the onetime administrator of Arkham Asylum, has become mayor and convinced Gotham to create "Arkham City" by walling off the worst, most crime-ridden areas of the city and turning the area into a giant open-air prison. The game has DirectX 9 and 11 rendering paths, with support for tessellation, multi-view soft shadows, and ambient occlusion. We tested in DX11 mode at various resolutions with all in-game graphical options set to their maximum values.

The performance trend was ever so slightly different in the Batman: Arkham City benchmark. In this game, the Radeon HD 7790 cards once again finished in between the Radeon HD 7850 and 7770, but they performed essentially on par with the GeForce GTX 650 Ti. In fact, the reference clocked 7790 trailed the 650 Ti. The factory overclocked 7790s, however, caught up with or slightly pulled ahead of the 650 Ti.

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